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·May 20

Whose Dog’s Life Is It Anyway?

My dog Giada has never seen a Broadway or West End play, but her twilight years are unfolding like an award-winning drama from 1978, Whose life is it anyway? The play, which became a 1981 movie starring Richard Dreyfuss, examines the right of a quadriplegic to end his own life…

Dogs

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Whose dog’s life is it anyway?
Whose dog’s life is it anyway?
Dogs

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ILLUMINATION

·May 17

MUSEUMS MADE IN ITALY, WITH AN INDUSTRIAL TWIST

Italian museums offer much more than portraits of beatific Madonnas and maleficent Medicis hung along dusty corridors with dim lighting. Italy’s industrial history has created the backdrop for a special category of museum that appeals to visitors interested in food, health, design, society, fashion, transportation, even children’s toys. Would you…

Italy

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MUSEUMS MADE IN ITALY, WITH AN INDUSTRIAL TWIST
MUSEUMS MADE IN ITALY, WITH AN INDUSTRIAL TWIST
Italy

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May 15

A Moving Experience: Italy vs. the US in the healthcare shell game

A shell game always involves deception or fraud. You’ll find plenty of online videos to show you the tricks in a street game with shells and peas. But what about the game with bigger stakes — the health of a person . . . or a country? …

USA

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A Moving Experience: Italy vs. the US in the healthcare shell game
A Moving Experience: Italy vs. the US in the healthcare shell game
USA

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·May 7

There’s a dinosaur on my wedding cake!

When I was six years old, I wanted to be a paleontologist. While other girls dreamed about Snow White (or Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty or whoever the princess of the month was), I dreamed about dinosaurs. As I grew older, paleontology was discarded as a professional aspiration, but not my…

Wedding

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There’s a dinosaur on my wedding cake!
There’s a dinosaur on my wedding cake!
Wedding

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ILLUMINATION

·Apr 21

A Moving Experience: Extensio ad absurdum

Medicare madness is enough to drive you bonkers in the US. Add the IRS and Social Security to the mix, and catatonia in American society is within reach of the entire population. Let’s start with the place where all roads end — Medicare. I take two daily meds, one to…

Social Security

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A Moving Experience: Extensio ad absurdum
A Moving Experience: Extensio ad absurdum
Social Security

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ILLUMINATION

·Mar 19

A Moving Experience: PediCURE in Sarajevo

By the time I landed in Sarajevo, I was a nervous wreck. …

Sarajevo

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A Moving Experience: PediCURE in Sarajevo
A Moving Experience: PediCURE in Sarajevo
Sarajevo

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·Mar 17

A Moving Experience: The High Stress of Safety Abroad

One of the disheartening things about returning to places in Europe where one has lived for decades — not years, mind you, but DECADES — is that no one wants to deal with Americans anymore. By “no one,” I specifically mean European banks. It started with FATCA in 2010 and…

Italy

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A Moving Experience: The High Stress of Safety Abroad
A Moving Experience: The High Stress of Safety Abroad
Italy

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·Mar 11

A Moving Experience: Monte-Carlo on foot, drinking caffé

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” goes the saying. The more things change, the more they remain the same. That is halfway true of Monaco, where I had lived throughout the 1990s but had not revisited for almost a decade. The weather on the Côte d’Azur was perfect…

Monte Carlo

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A Moving Experience: Monte-Carlo on foot, drinking caffé
A Moving Experience: Monte-Carlo on foot, drinking caffé
Monte Carlo

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ILLUMINATION

·Feb 18

A Moving Experience: The Lifecycle of a Coat

A wardrobe is in constant flux. When you change jobs, lifestyles, climates, and countries, you should rethink the clothes in your closet. This is especially true when you are moving TO or FROM a country like Italy, arguably the most clothes-conscious country in the world. My lesson came early when…

USA

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A Moving Experience: The Lifecycle of a Coat
A Moving Experience: The Lifecycle of a Coat
USA

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·Feb 13

A Moving Experience: The Disappearance of Can Do

Italians have always admired American logic, rationality, organization, and ability to Get Things Done. They may see in the US a culture and lifestyle inferior to their own, but they respect the Can Do attitude across the ocean. …

USA

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A Moving Experience: The Disappearance of Can Do
A Moving Experience: The Disappearance of Can Do
USA

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