Italy
Prairie Dogging in Tokyo
I’d never pooed in public. I didn’t want to somehow ever be compared to our former PM Scott Morrison, who shidded himself at Endagine Maccas, allegedly.
Going Home to a Place that Doesn’t Exist
I came to discover my family is from a place that is the butt of a nationwide joke: Molise, Italy.
I Lost My Friend in Italy
You may think I was in love with her. You would be right. But not in the way you think. She was one of my best friends. We met in…
Caruso
For a few years I lived in the Trastevere district of Rome. I rode a bicycle to work and bought groceries at the market. I lived in a flat at…
I Lived and Worked in an Italian Monastery
I am not a religious person. I consider the existence of god with an agnostic shrug and struggle to understand the conservatism of my church-going acquaintances. Yet on a warm…
I Got Locked in a Toilet at a Medieval Festival in Italy
Shit. What’s the Italian word for ‘help’? I frantically wracked my 10-year-old brain and attentively scanned the room for something I could use to pick the lock, or at least…