Is HOME a physical place?
We talk about home and often that refers to a physical place. But is it really like that in the end? To me, I don’t know, at least not completely. There have been times when, between walls that were familiar…
Motherhood: between deep love and the risk of getting lost
People describe to me what it means to become a mother in many different ways, but I can surely say that when my time arrived I had no idea what would really happen to me. I wasn’t born with a…
From Tampa to London, passing through Chicago
I sat in front of my PC feeling excited about the Skype call I was waiting for, I would be interviewing Amelie. Ame (that’s what I’ve called her for years) is a college friend, we studied Law together and we…
Did you dance before planning 2018?
It’s 2018, everyone is planning the new year and I’m stuck. I’m used to thinking about the year from September to July (doesn’t everyone who has school kids do this?) and I usually plan in August. But January brings along…
THE STRUGGLE OF BEING MY TRUE SELF
This evening I was reading a post from a woman who taught me a lot. It was her first post for a while and I could see and feel her in every word, in every letter. It inspired me in…
THE ROLLERCOASTER OF EXPAT FRIENDSHIPS
One day you wake up and it’s the morning of your new life, in a new place. When you decided to move the time flew by and suddenly, today you are already here and it seems like there wasn’t enough…
DISCOVER YOURSELF THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE’S DIVERSITY
I’ve always been instinctively attracted by who’s different from me. It always makes me smile when my mum tells how, as a child, I wandered alone among beach umbrellas making friends in a natural way with people of every age.…
WHO DECIDES WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE IN YOUR CAREER?
-Our beliefs are the vehicle that can take us far in life or hold us back- Oprah W. We all do it. Someone sitting at the desk during a break, someone during a meeting, someone while getting the house in…
WHAT TO DO BEFORE LEAVING – THE EXPAT JOURNEY
I still remember as it happened yesterday when my husband came back home telling me that he was contacted for a new job in Zürich. I’ve always hoped to experience living abroad, it was part of my idealistic future life,…
[:it]COSA HO IMPARATO DALLA CORSA – perchè per correre non bisogna essere magri, alti e strafighi[:en]WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM RUNNIG – Why you don’t have to be slim, athletic and supercool to go running[:]
[:it]E’ mattina e io ho sonno. La mattina più che l’oro per me ha il piombo in bocca, il mio corpo si muove lento e chiede tempo per risvegliarsi. Ma ho imparato a dargli fiducia perché so cosa succederà dopo.…
[:it]NON ESISTE LA SOLUZIONE, MA LA “TUA SOLUZIONE”[:en]THERE’S NO RIGHT SOLUTION: YOU CAN ONLY FIND YOUR WAY THOUGH IT[:]
[:it]Nell’ultimo anno ho letto una quantità abbondante di contenuti e mi sono resa conto che al posto di sentirmi ispirata, spesso, mi ritrovavo schiacciata o sopraffatta dalle 100 soluzioni che mi venivano proposte e che mi chiedevano sempre di essere,…
