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It all started when my Italian girlfriend introduced me to “La Bella Figura – A Field Guide to the Italian Mind” by Beppe Severgnini. A comical book written by an Italian journalist who’s lived outside of Italy long enough to view his own people from an outsider’s perspective, and explain the differences. Such as, why [...]

You are in a public bathroom at a restaurant and you reach over to pull thepublic toilet prominently displayed cord to flush the toilet. The toilet doesn’t flush; instead sirens go off in the restaurant! Then you see the real flushing mechanism is not the emergency help cord you just pulled but the small white [...]

As I was preparing for my recent trip to Sofia, Bulgaria, I was reminded unintentionally by my voice teacher how far technology has gone for the traveling singer. He asked me if I was packing a small piano keyboard in which to practice. When I explained that I didn’t own one, he nicely offered that [...]