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If you’ve just arrived, here are some of my favorite posts to get you started:
About me, the blog, and blogging in general:
- 5 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic & Make Money With Your Blog
- A Blog By Any Other Name: how I came up with “bleeding espresso”
- Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do: My Decision to Leave the Law
- Dreaming about the Meaning of Life: sharing a rather philosophical dream
- The House of Violets: my path to Calabria was paved with violets . . . and destiny
- Sunday Scribblings: Crush: fondly remembering a childhood crush
- Sunday Scribblings: Masks: the struggle of showing my real personality while learning Italian
- Why I Would Want to Live *There*: verbalizing the reason behind my living in Italy
- You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello: my decision to move here was actually quite easy
- Also check out the Me Me Me category
About P:
- Amore Mio: finally a photo of my beloved P
- Conversations with P: my beloved being romantic and stuff
- How a Jean Jacket and Some Wind Can Change Your Life: how P and I met
- Love Thursday: Tokens of Love
- Love Thursday: Tomato Love
- Also check out the P category
About the pooches:
- Getting to Know Luna: a meme from Luna Balloona
- Most Popular Dog in Town: my efforts to keep Luna pure
- Puppy Eyes & Puppy Sighs: when the puppies first saw the world
- Love Thursday: A Mamma’s Love: all the babies in one post
- Stellaaaaaaaa!: a meme from Stella Bella
- Also check out the Puppy Love category
About my family:
- Bigs Gifts from Little Ones: presents from my niece and nephew in the States
- Ghost of Christmas Past (revisited): my childhood Christmases and my grandfather wearing bows
- A Grandmother’s Influence: a post about my Italian-American grandmother who helped raise me
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Happy Father’s Day!: a story about my daddy
- Sunday Scribblings: Wings: a tribute to my mom
- Also check out the Family category
About Calabria:
- Conquering Evil (One Plastic Red Horn at a Time): all about malocchio
- Destination Calabria: Photo Tour of a Medieval Village in Southern Italy Parts I and II
- Into the Heart of Calabria: Benvenuti a Badolato: my village in a nutshell
- My Great-Grandmother’s Village: Isca sull’Ionio: a tour of another ancestral town
- Sunday Scribblings: Superstitions: superstitions in Calabria
- Tuesday Morning Market in Calabria: Part I and Part II
- Also check out Scenes from Village Life and Life in Calabria categories
Freelance Writing:
- Freelance Writing Week I (five posts!)
- Freelance Writing Week II (five posts!)
About Sicily:
- Touring Sicily: Messina
- Touring Sicily: Savoca (The Godfather village)
- Touring Sicily: Tindari’s Sanctuary of the Black Madonna
- Touring Sicily: The Ruins of Tindari
- Antica Focacceria San Francesco in Palermo
- Teatro Massimo in Palermo
- Palermo’s La Fontana della Vergogna/Fountain of Shame
- Quattro Canti in Palermo
- Palermo: La Porta Nuova
- Duomo in Palermo
- Palermo’s La Vucciria Market
- Gardens of Palermo: Villa Garibaldi & Villa Bonanno
- I Beati Paoli: Secret Society in Palermo, Sicily
- Capuchin Catacombs, Palermo, Sicily
About Italy and the Italian language:
- Claiming Italian Citizenship “Jure Sanguinis”: How I Became Legal in Italy
- Happy Befana!: celebrating the Epiphany in a uniquely Italian way
- Murder and Xenophobia: Troubled Times in Italy: the Meredith Kercher murder
- Sisterhood of the Impossible-to-Find Pants: the joys of shopping in Italy
- Top 5 Italian Words You Really Don’t Want to Mispronounce
- You Know You’re In Italy When…
- Also check out Uniquely Italian and Why Do They Do That categories
About food:
- Apples & Thyme: Celebrating Time in the Kitchen with Mothers & Grandmothers
- Eating Out in Calabria
- Ms Adventures in Italy’s Tour del Gelato Comes to Calabria
- Ode to the Peperoncino
- A Word on Grappa
- Also check out the Food category
*For a list of recipes, go here.*
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