Risposta a "Brexit, i 700mila italiani 'traditi': Chi va e chi resta. E' l'ora delle decisioni", dalla serie 'I 100 giorni in Europa', Marzo 2019 Gentile Dr Ippolito, Ho letto con attenzione il suo articolo sui cittadini italiani nel Regno Unito, che mi riguarda personalmente dato che vivo e lavoro in Gran Bretagna (Oxford). Sono … Continue reading tradimento brexit: lettera al Corriere
autostrada mediterraneo
Immaginate per un momento che il Mediterraneo, invece di essere un mare che mangia le barche e i gommoni, fosse una strada lunga e dritta, ma piena di buche. Un'autostrada, per la precisione, che non ha avuto alcuna manutenzione fin dagli inizi degli anni 60, quando hanno gettato il bitume su quella che era una … Continue reading autostrada mediterraneo
breve storia felice #1 short happy story
Pausa pranzo, ore 12.01. Pranzo a là tupperware. Mangio la mia fetta di pane di segale. Ho MOLTA più fame di una fetta sola. Finisco l'insalata. Scopro una seconda fetta di pane sotto l'insalata, che probabilmente avevo messo in fondo al tupperware stamattina per poi dimenticarmene. Fine Lunch Break, h. 12.01. Tupperwared lunch. I eat … Continue reading breve storia felice #1 short happy story
wednesday burnout
Lists. Don't tell me you don't adore lists. Your silence tells me you don't adore lists. Is it because, when you stick them on fridges, after having written them on a fancy piece of paper made specifically for lists, they grow longer and longer, trespassing the boundaries of the paper itself to continue on the … Continue reading wednesday burnout
the catholic without
Without a church. Without a community. Without a priest. Even without a prayer book, a little cross hanging from my neck, a religion. A catholic without, not within. And don't tell me it doesn't sound cool. The story is common: nice little clever girl is raised in a nice catholic family within a small and … Continue reading the catholic without
porcelain unicorns
"I am just fed up. I feel this job does not reflect my true self or give breathing space to my real aspirations. I could do so much more out of it than in it." My mum keeps underlining words on a book she's been reading for the last fifteen years, in the breaks between … Continue reading porcelain unicorns
The Broccoli Strategy
I always wanted to be part of a tiny revolution. However, be it the time of history (everybody busy getting back on the tracks of their school, job, patriotic spirit, religious being etc.), be it the fact that my revolutionary side is not too accentuated, I haven't got around creating radical change in the world … Continue reading The Broccoli Strategy
breast cancer, this foreign concept
As it happens, all my questions were born from a film I watched last week during one of those empty schoolday evenings, Miss You Already, featuring a magnificent Toni Collette as a mother of two with metastatic breast cancer. Good film, definitely don't watch it if you had a difficult day at work. And of course, … Continue reading breast cancer, this foreign concept
the mountain who fell in love
Today we talk about mountains, just because we can (although we don't deserve it), and in particular of one mountain, the Pelmo, imposing its weight on the dolomitic region with its majestic, square shoulders and its isolation from the other peaks. The people from the Cadore region have different names for this mountain: Pelego is the … Continue reading the mountain who fell in love
on bridges
The past two years have been the years of walls. Concrete walls, bureaucratic walls, all sorts of walls, come on down. With a small hiatus during the last week, where bridges put in a dramatic guest appearance. The tragedy of Ponte Morandi cannot be unseen, and has provoked more indignation in Europe than any Syrian … Continue reading on bridges
