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LATEST ARTICLES ( 88 )

• Macaronic English Part 2

  

  My six-year-old always says, “Don’t laugh at me!” I swear I’m not. It’s just that my little half-Irish, half-American, 100% Italian little man says things in... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sneak Peek Page 152: a Passage from My Manuscript

  

  Photo by Gino di MareBy the end of summer, Naples was a ghost town. It was only in part due to the exodus of all the fuori sede students, because millions of... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hoping for Gold

  

  I hope you don't mind, David Neale of the Golden Smith Shop, thatI used this picture of your stunning ring I’m particularly passionate about true stories. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2014 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Selfie Without Make-up

  

  No make-up but the baby brings out my eyesApparently if you don't post anything on your blog for a while, they shut it down. For the last week, I was... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bad as in 'bad'

  

  Wonder Woman, from http://www.crushable.com/ I’m bad. I haven’t been able to keep up with my blog posts. And I had promised to. Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Choosing a Children's Book by Its Cover

  As a mom to a five-year-old boy, I’m constantly making trips to the library to get out books on naughty dinosaurs, blue monsters and run-away dump trucks. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• An (illustrated) Children's Book by Heddi Goodrich (Italian - English)

  El Negro era proprio figo. (illustrazione di una pecora nera circondata da ammiratori) Pecorino non lo era. Era uguali agli altri. Banale come una nuvola... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• An (illustrated) Children's Book by Heddi Goodrich

  

  Black Dude sure was cool. (illustration: suave black sheep surrounded by admirers)Sheepy wasn’t. He was just like everybody else. As boring as a fluffy white... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Short and Sweet

  

  As promised, this week I’m practicing succinctness. Short and sweet. Cool news: I’m published! OK, I mean self-published. But because the book was published... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Economizing

  To keep good on my renewed promise to write in my blog weekly, I have to be realistic. I’m a time-poor mother of now two boys and I no longer have the luxury... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Excuses, Excuses

  

  At my most 'watermelon' You’re probably wondering if I’m dead. I’m alive and well after a long, unannounced hiatus from my blog.  It may look... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Italian from His Head to the Fingers of His Feet

  

  My bilingual four-year-old is starting to understand when to use each of his languages – some form of English with his dad (“Can me put me pants under me undies? Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, LANGUAGES, SELF EXPRESSION, TRAVEL

• You're Probably Wondering

  You’re probably wondering what in the heck happened to my publishing dream. Well, it’s still there, like the herpes I can’t get rid of. Like a pregnancy... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Colon Discomfort

  

  Image from http://www.dumblittleman.com/2009/12/dumblittleman-guide-to-colon-use.htmlYes, colon discomfort. But you’d be wrong to think that my recent... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A New Definition of Prosciutto

  Some might call me crazy for attempting to fly from Auckland to my native Washington D.C. with three stopovers over 26 hours, traveling four months' pregnant... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• How Literary Agents Are Like Cats

  

  Minky: "It wasn't me."The other night I woke up to howling. Was it the young cat, Opossum, in heat? No. Since having her spayed on Tuesday, her hormones seemed... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2012 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Kiwi Son Still Speaks English Like a Wop

  Since shamefacedly taking two months’ unapproved leave (without pay) from blog writing, a few things in my life have changed. A copyediting deadline has lifted... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2012 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sunclouds and Handcakes

  Wasn’t the world a much nicer place when you were little? There were no taxes to pay, no deadlines, no backaches. Instead there were kittens, lollipops,... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2012 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Blame Naples

  

  Dolce Far Niente, vintage postcard retrieved from http://www.annuncinapoli.it/ I can blame Naples – my home for ten years – for a lot of things. For a broken... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2012 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Food Inspiration: the Last Sack of Potatoes

  

  'Sack of potatoes' from http://www.dreasmstime.com/Being a starving writer isn’t so fun anymore when the cupboards actually do go bare. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION