“Ne di Venere Ne di Marte non si sposa ne si parte!” Welcome to Part One of a Five-Part Series about le nozze, i matrimoni or, as we say in English, WEDDINGS! On the board today… Tradizioni Italiani! Wedding traditions, in both the US and Italy, date back further than Martha Stewart, Preston Bailey, or...Read More
Birds are singing and bees are buzzing – love is in the air. As in America, summer is the season of love, and with that love, comes marriage, and before you know it, a baby carriage. Oh, wait. I got ahead of myself. Anyway, you might remember a few weeks ago when I was lamenting...Read More
… what a SCARY concept! Yuck. I mean who wants to think about the dead, dying, and death on the happiest day of their lives? Not me! I want to think happy thoughts…positive thoughts… Why not say instead “forever” or “for always” or even “forever and ever and always?” I’m just saying…It certainly isn’t a...Read More
I just read a comment posted by a fellow expat and I found some of the comments rather timely, as Peppe and I just debated the timeless question…”Does love really mean never having to say you’re sorry?” He thinks it is very “American” of me to suggest (pronounced: de-mand) an apology after an argument, or...Read More
For the last four months Peppe has been telling me he had a surprise for me. I love surprises, and I bugged him constantly for hints and ideas as to what it could be. We have friends going to Egypt in September, so I thought maybe he bought us tickets to go with them....Read More
So, I joined this online forum for people who are Expats in Italy. I have mentioned the site on here a few times and I have a link to it on the side of this page. Well, I would read about the Italian Bureaucracy, and people talking about getting a visa or a pdiS, or...Read More
