Edible pacifiers (cheese), perhaps the very best "taste of Italy" for the under age crowd. Too immature for you? The wares of Volpetti will wow you. Amazing cheese, salumi, pasta, everything your heart requires and desires in a delicatessen. This is where I come to when I am angry, sad and in any kind of mood. If Volpetti is too congested, and I have the time, I like to browse the counter … [Read more...]
Feb 9, 2011
#SMWRME or How to Participate in a Hashtag
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It's Social Media Week in Rome, and as one always happy for a geek moment and free wifi, I signed up for several of the 130 events. To participate, all you need is an email address and a smart phone, and you're in like Flynn. Tuesday, I sat in at Mamme 2.0, a conference themed around the "mom sector", discussing anthropological research and its relevance in social media. Though I knew we … [Read more...]
Jun 10, 2009
My Life Has Changed, You Really Wouldn’t Understand.
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A few weeks ago, a visiting friend, who only knew me during my Ed the Artist days in Los Angeles, asked me if my life has changed now that I am a mother. I've always hated this question, and more importantly, I've always had a strong disdain for those women and men who look at you out of the corner of their eyes and half-whisper, "Ever since my child was born, my life has changed completely. … [Read more...]
Jun 1, 2009
Run-On Sentence
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My dad surprised my mom with a visit to Rome for her birthday (1 June) so they arrived last week, we organized a christening (at the most beautiful battistero in world) and I turned into Super Mom, Super Stepmom and Super Daughter meanwhile the Professor has left me for a documentary around Campania and I am running around like a maniac cleaning, momming, touring, organizing, cooking, changing … [Read more...]
