Archive - Life Lived Italian

One Last Tango On Top of the World (Soundtrack)

A playlist for the waning days of summer...

Aug 13 •

Life Lived Italian

A Tango On Top of the World

Precipizio was the one-word theme of this year’s Le Parole della Montagna festival, a two-week series of lectures and discussions with authors, poets…

Aug 1 •

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July 2025

The Pope Goes To My Gym

One of the first things I noticed when I joined a gym in Rome is that when anyone enters the locker room, everyone there greets them.

Jul 18 •

Life Lived Italian

America Puts Its Best Foot Forward

And the Swiss come to dance...

Jul 3 •

Life Lived Italian

June 2025

Ghosts in the Machines

All the time I was in Modena, I couldn’t help thinking about my father.

Jun 19 •

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Brothers from a Mediterranean Mother

Postcard From A Greek Vacation

Jun 6 •

Life Lived Italian

May 2025

The Empire Strikes Back

I probably should have seen it coming when the Caput Mundi signs showed up last year.

May 23 •

Life Lived Italian

You Know You're In Italy When...

From our perch on Borgo Pio, just outside of the Vatican in Rome, it doesn’t take long before you learn the rhythm of the tourist calendar.

May 16 •

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April 2025

The Art of Living Simply

Flanked by a Trastevere police station and a Regione Lazio office tower that puts the brute in “brutalist”, the Roman neighborhood where the unassuming…

Apr 24 •

Life Lived Italian

Where Beauty Hides

From when we first arrived in the region of Le Marche, I noticed that people spoke of the town of Monte San Martino with a certain reverence, as if a…

Apr 18 •

Life Lived Italian

March 2025

Better Together

The Caffè Dreams of Camillo Benso di Cavour

Mar 28 •

Life Lived Italian

Join Me On Friday!

No reading assignment this time :)

Mar 13 •

Life Lived Italian

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