Tag Archive: Italy

Doubts and Thanksgiving

There are things that accompany me throughout the day. They’re as annoying as the little flies during the summer months in southern Alabama. Or the twenty minute long commercials that keep interrupting the last three seconds of the Office.
Unfortunately the doubts are in my head, so I can’t squish them like blood sucking [...]

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What happens next?

I never thought that I’d actually hope my daughter wouldn’t fall asleep too quickly so that I could keep reading her books, but it’s happened.
I’m becoming obsessed with Nancy Drew. Maybe it’s because I grew up in Italy and we didn’t read Nancy Drew, but I love her and her dad.
Luisa and I are reading [...]

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Easter, doubts and bad pizza

Today I celebrated Easter with my five daughters. We went to church, the Catholic church I more often than not fail to attend.
I got in the van early in the morning and had the girls wear pretty dresses. I wore black pants and a black shirt and no make up. I consider the [...]

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