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LATEST ARTICLES ( 88 )

• Why Don’t You Understand Me?

  What I fear most these days is not understanding something my son says. Because lately this triggers a fit of frustration worthy of the Terrible Twos but with... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Open at My Own Risk

  I just received the most precious of packages: a box full of my stories, letters and diaries dating back to when I was sixteen. I hadn’t even realized they’d... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Who Are You?

  Now and then I check the statistics page of my blog. OK, nearly every day. Some days I get just a few hits: I’m sure this can be blamed somehow on the weather. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2011 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Perfectly Honest Query Letter

  Dear Not Really the Agent of My DreamsIf I’m to be perfectly honest, you’re the fifty-third agent I’ve contacted. Fifty-three is not exactly my lucky number... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Children’s Books Translated for Your Convenience (Italian-English)

  

  Ci sono momenti in cui sento di essere una mamma scadente – come quando faccio vedere al pupo troppi cartoni animati per poter scappare a scrostare i piatti... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2011 FAMILY, LANGUAGES, TRAVEL

• Now That I’m Old and Toothless

  Last month I turned forty. I didn’t want to make a big deal of it, really. I said no presents, and please no big party. But it was harder to say no to the... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2011 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• How Proofreading is Like Cooking

  Leftovers. That just won’t do tonight. It’s scientifically proven that three-year-olds won’t eat anything presented to them more than twice within any... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2011 CREATIVITY, FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Diary That Broke the Camel’s Back

  

  I don’t know about you, but I like to travel to America with half-empty suitcases so on the way back I can fill them up with treasures not easily found... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost in Translation (Italian-English)

  Un po' di tempo fa Mamma Rita - la mia mamma adottiva napoletana - mi ha suggerito di tradurre il mio manoscritto in italiano, perché ha conoscenze nel mondo... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• More Cool New Phrases to Drop Casually into Conversation

  Here are a few more new phrases to insert furtively into conversation with your friends, colleagues and perfect strangers at the bus stop. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Real Inner Dialogue the Night I Heard Back from the Agent

  This is it. I know it. This time when I open my hotmail account there will be an email from Ms. X. It's been nearly four months since she requested my... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Great First Lines

  "I baked a chicken the night I left my wife." These are the first lines of a book I was recently lent, purchased by a friend on the merit of this sentence alone. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thank Goodness

  for parents. While you're off finding yourself and sipping apple tea in Turkey, they store all your crap. They even store crap you didn't ask them to, like... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Redefining the Word 'victim'

  Victim (noun): target of an attack, or one harmed by a crime, tort, unfairness, or other wrongYou may know that I've suffered a root canal, but you may not be... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Waiting

  

  You’re probably aware that I’m waiting to hear back from a London-based literary agent who’s reading my manuscript. That is, if she didn’t use it as kindling... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dear Allen

  (or would you prefer Mr. Unwin?)Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. It was the loveliest, most personalized, rejection I’ve ever received. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• How I Learned Bulgarian

  If the stories of how I learned Italian and Spanish were necessarily sunny, my story of how I learned Bulgarian is inevitably dark. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• How I Learned Spanish

  I know, a more remarkable topic might be “How I managed not to learn Spanish living in East Coast America”. Because growing up in the Washington D.C. area reall... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• How I Learned Italian

  

  The Streets of Old Naples by Gyöngyi EsseFor a decade I lived, studied and worked in Naples, Italy. Of course, when I first arrived at the beansprout age of... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A New Name for Romeo

  

  Romeo and Juliet by Sir Frank DickseeI’ve always loved the name “Elio”. It comes from the Greek Helios, meaning “sun”. For an Italian name, it’s comparatively... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2011 CREATIVITY, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION