Expatations: To Travel Is to Take a Journey Into Yourself
In the new Expatations column, we try to develop a conversation around common expat problems you may encounter in Italy.
Pass The Prosecco
The real Italian thing lies in the wince, the smile, the glance, the wave.
The Boomerang Effect
As the boomerang flies, so it flies back. The stories that lived within me, passed down from my grandparents. Theirs was an Italy of nostalgic approximation. Mine is an Italy that is bowed but unbroken, a phoenix that will rise again.
Reverse Immigrant: Not Italian Enough For Italians, Not American Enough For Americans
An incisive vignette revealing a surprising profile of an Italian foreign woman returning to the motherland.
Italians Of The Bay Area: Lorenza Graziosi
“If it weren’t for my husband, I would still be in Umbria. Who knew that after two months from the day we met, we would be getting married in San Francisco?”
North Beach: An Italian American Neighborhood?
While I was sitting at a cafe in North Beach, I started to wonder what makes something ‘Italian’.