From the 60’s to the 80’s across three countries

A recent email from my friend Dick gave me the idea for this article: three pieces of memory from three different decades in three different countries: the US, the UK and Italy.

My part, the last one, is of course the longest: as already discussed on this blog, the skill of being concise is not among the ones that God gifted me with. Continue reading

Learning languages and then messing up with them

Since April, when I started this new blog, I’ve been thinking of a way to give it a different and original shape, to make it sexier and (if possible) a place where people would come to find useful tips for what they need.

In an era when even my hamster Facebooks, Twitters and has its own blog (it’s called “Running for Nothing”, check it out), I find it quite hard to find an original idea which would be also sexy and helpful. I ought to probably just stick to the type of I-write-about-everything-and-nothing blog, which at times can be interesting for readers, others it’s just a way to practise my typing skills. Continue reading