When I was a little girl and I was on holidays, those long summer holidays marked by a slow pace of read books and TV movies, lunch time was the moment I was expecting everyday, even at that time. I spent the mornings and the afternoons at home, or in the garden, or riding our country roads with my [...]

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In the winter I was able to write bilingual posts in the evening, after dinner, with a steaming cup of tea at my side and a wool blanket on my legs: what a nineteenth-century image, isn’t it? shall I add a gleaming candle, too? I just want to stress that I used to write my [...]

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On Friday, coming back home from work, I stopped at the local farmer’s market, the one just opened a few minutes from my house, and I filled my recycled cotton bag with honey scented melons, the freshest garlic, crisp zucchini and small ruby red plums, sweet and juicy. The vegetables were still warm, freshly picked, lightly dusted with dark soil. [...]

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Every now and then, during a train or bus trip, when I am listening to the music with half-open eyes and the landscape looses its contours, I let my thoughts go and begin to dream. I do love dreaming, I’ve always done it since I can remember, dramatizing stories and plots, depicting daily life scenes [...]

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One of my favorite cartoons when I was a little girl was Jem and the Holograms, where the protagonist – Jem, a beautiful and exuberant singer – always played in between the real and the virtual world, the real Jem and her hologram. Well, last Saturday, in Viareggio (LU), at Lombardi store, I shifted from [...]

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