by Patver | Jul 27, 2022 | BEING ITALIAN, BEING ITALIAN
Waste Here in Italy, news on paper or TV is scaring us with apocalyptic predictions for next Autumn. No Russian Gas to heat our homes, water rationing, skyrocketing fuel prices, and our economy is going back decades. As I live in Rome, how can I not add to this... 
by Patver | Jul 12, 2022 | BEING ITALIAN
Rome, in love forever I can’t remember one time in my life when I was not in love with Rome. When we left Rome to immigrate to the U.K., I was five and begged my parents more than once to keep their promise: they had ensured we would return to Rome in... 
by Patver | Apr 14, 2022 | ALL POSTS, BEING ITALIAN, RECIPES
If ever there were a week when Italians must do a lot of cooking, it’s the week before Easter. When I was a child, lent fasting was a severe prescription for Catholic families. I remember my grandmother Modestina took it so seriously that only when the bells... 
by Patver | Jan 23, 2022 | ALL POSTS, BEING ITALIAN
Italy is Out Time to change perspective “What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your... 
by Patver | Nov 10, 2021 | ALL POSTS, BEING ITALIAN
my triangle At the end of the school year we spent in Molise, we went back to Manchester, England. But, before school started, I was sent back to Rome to live with an aunt that I believe I had seen only once in my life. I was an anchor cast to secure that one... 
by Ideepratiche- Webmaster | Oct 14, 2021 | ALL POSTS, BEING ITALIAN
It’s not easy Lazy, crazy, unruly wise guys? Believe me, being Italian is not an easy thing. Every time, I look at the life we live in this “blessed with everything Country” I start singing Luca Carboni’s song “Ci vuole un fisico bestiale (You need a feral...
