I tend to make lists of things, books, songs and movies to keep a precarious order in my mind. Your top 5 romantic movies, for example. Easy as drinking a glass of water: Pretty Woman, Nottingh Hill, Dirty Dancing, Sleepless in Seattle and Four weddings and a funeral. I did the same with the books [...]

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This year, the first year of my new life as a self-employed food addict, I discovered Winter and Spring as new seasons, I admired them with curiosity as they unfolded their chilly and bright days in front of my eyes, I learned new rhythms and I made them mine. With Summer is different, it’s a [...]

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My relationship with fashion is very peculiar, it began with a charcoal gray little dress I should have worn for an event in the Escada store in Florence a few years ago in one of my previous lives, immediately after the University, when I was an intern in a PR agency that dealt with events [...]

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When Bruce Springsteen began to sing I was not even born. I started to listen to his music more attentively since 2006, when my rock’n’roll younger sister accidentally handed me Magic, that soon became the soundtrack of my car trips, and still is the album I choose whenever I want to drive lightheartedly enjoying the [...]

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There is a Tuscan word I use often, without even realizing that it remains unknown to most people because it belongs to my dialect: scollettare, litteraly meaning to go uphill and then downhill on the other side. You can go downhill figuratively, when you get through the worst and what now remains is the easiest part [...]

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