I have been writing stories, in my head, since I was a little girl. At age 34, I published my first novel, in English, not my native tongue. And I haven’t stopped writing since. Here, you will read about Los Angeles, about healing, about grief, about marriage, parenthood, love, food, basically all that I am.
Hi guys! March has come and gone, and for most of it I did a lot of “underwater work”. I stole this paraphrased quote from Becoming, Michelle Obama’s biography that I have finally finished reading. It’s one of the most beautiful books I have ever read, and it somewhat encouraged the opening of a door for me, a door into new adulthood, into a new…
Hi Guys! How are you? I had a planned a celebratory mood for this month’s newsletter, until February 23rd, when everything I wanted to talk about became suddenly trivial, superficial, unnecessary. Since the age of 10, in 1992, when from the coast of Puglia I witnessed boats of Albanian refugees crossing the Adriatic Sea fleeing war, Third World War has been one of my biggest…
Hi guys, January, birthday month, coldest month (according to an old Italian fable), month of new beginnings… How was yours? Having been writing these newsletters for a while now, I try to not plan the topic excessively; more and more often, in fact, I write them the day before the end of the month, and doing so helps me pause and think about the time…
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion wrote in 1979. The White Album, where this quote is from, wasn’t the first work of hers I read. Blue Nights was. When I moved to America, in 2010, I didn’t know who Joan Didion was. I didn’t know I could write, let alone in a language that wasn’t my native one; I didn’t know…
Hi guys, How are you? I was up all night last night, worrying, planning, thinking… I woke up from a strange dream, thought I heard an ad about hearing aids on Ben’s phone, complained that he snored too loud, then never fell back asleep. My mind went to the contractor I had to text, and to the email I had not answered (I will email…
Hi guys, how are you? How was October? This month for me, I’ll go straight to the point, has been about resilience. The past 5 years have been. The last two, obviously, even more. If we look back, our entire existence is about resilience. I will use a minor, mundane example to explain how I got to thinking about our capacity to recover and get…
Hi guys, as you may know, from this morning Instagram is down. If Instagram will be down by 5pm pacific, show time, we will all meet on my Youtube channel, where the show would be streaming live from: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfzMW5zvzBOT_rbh1xpKmVQ So I will see you at 5 pm pacific in any case, and I can’t wait. Please, let the members of the community who are not…
Hi guys! I, once again, waited until the very last minute to put together this “very non-put-together” newsletter. At first, I wanted to lightly talk about the season change, and how, inevitably, we change with it, the weather, the leaves, the color of the sky in the evening. But I didn’t know how much change I was about to face. And let’s face it, I…
When I was a young teenager, I was infatuated with an Italian movie from the 1980s, Sapore di Mare (Time for Loving). Written by Carlo Vanzina, and set in 1964, is the story of a brother and a sister from Naples who, with their family, vacation in Forte dei Marmi, in Versilia, along the Tuscan Riviera, for the first time. During their stay, they make…
Hi guys, How are you? How has July treated you? As it tends to happen, I crack the riddle of the newsletter when I least expect it, usually towards the end of the month, when I feel the pressure of publication. This one was no different. Last week, at the end of my workout with Tracy Anderson, Tracy explained how showing her own struggle during…
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