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 | Mar 14, 2022 | ALL POSTS, MISCELLANEOUS
The Patient Nightmare There are two words with the same meaning, the English un-ex-pect-ed-ly and in-as-pet-ta-ta-men-te in Italian, that I can’t say light-heartedly. I need to pause. I need awareness and concentration so my mouth can perform all the required... 
by Patver | Jan 30, 2022 | ABOUT ME, ALL POSTS
Thank you, Emilie Wapnick! If only you were not so young. I have nothing against young people. The problem is that Emilie was born too late. Too late for me. Too late to make the significant change she would have made in my life if only I could have met her... 
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 | Dec 17, 2021 | ALL POSTS, NO WAY! THAT'S NOT US
The Big Other It was last August, an uncomfortably warm afternoon with nothing else to do but wait for the sun to go down so I could go out a bit. There I was with my red pencil and my notebook, ready to spoil the movie by Jan Schomburg The Big Other, with Callum... 
by Patver | Nov 30, 2021 | A SHELF OF THEIR OWN, ALL POSTS
(…continues from: read the previous post clicking HERE Abigail Speaker path breaker I always have goosebumps when I receive a parcel from Brooklyn, New York, with a book in it. I’ve never been to New York, but the city that is a myth to many worldwide is so part...
