CFlisi·May 21Flipping the bird/birds to the man/menIt’s a plot so clichéd that any writers’ room in Hollywood would have vetoed it immediately. Too hackneyed. Too obvious. Too unbelievable…
CFlisi·Jan 10A vision draped in cashmereA recently-released movie about the life of Italian entrepreneur Brunello Cucinelli is aptly called, “The Gracious Visionary” (Il…A response icon1A response icon1
CFlisi·Dec 28, 2025Bologna’s infinite varietyShakespeare’s famous description of Cleopatra applies equally well to the city of Bologna: “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her…A response icon3A response icon3
CFlisi·Nov 23, 2025THE ROCKY HORROR PRINTER SHOWNovember is not known as a terrifying month, except for turkeys (whose nightmare ends with their untimely demise). But last week was an…
CFlisi·Jul 16, 2025Summertime . . . and the smelling is (too) easyIt’s summertime. Let¹s talk about body odors.
InILLUMINATIONbyCFlisi·Jun 23, 2025A Moving Experience: A mess is as good as a mileAlthough moving is one of the five big stress experiences in a lifetime (the others are death of a loved one, divorce, losing a job, and…A response icon1A response icon1
CFlisi·Apr 29, 2025A Moving Experience: Pizza as paradigm — Italy vs. the USPizza is a paradigm for almost everything that divides the US and Italy these days. And “Italy” could represent just about anywhere in…
CFlisi·Mar 30, 2025The honeyed mélange of Malta‘We are incredibly varied in spite of our size,” our taxi driver boasted during our 45-minute drive from Malta’s international airport to…
CFlisi·Mar 2, 2025An earthly heaven for hedgehogsMy human mom told me we were going to meet a new kind of animal in Piedmont. I had to be on best behavior, she said, because dogs are not…A response icon1A response icon1
InManagement MattersbyCFlisi·Feb 22, 2025Amphibian texocity (tech + toxicity)Doesn’t anyone else get the feeling that we are frogs in the pot of water, and the temperature is slowly rising (although, heaven forbid…
