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My son’s involved dad and a salute to men like him
We already celebrated Father’s Day in Italy on March 19. I got Andrea some flowers and took him out for dinner. And I got the distinct impression he was in meagre company. Italy still has some catching...
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Celebrating forty and returning to blogging
Tonight I’m kicking off two months of celebrating my fortieth birthday. I’m reuniting with a dear friend after three years, for one night only, and we’re celebrating 40 together since she’s a week...
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Putting my mask on first: attending a writer’s retreat in Tuscany
“A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children” – I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are...
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Mother Art Monday: Residency in Motherhood by Lenka Clayton
I suspect Lenka Clayton will understand why it’s taken me about twenty months since I first discovered her work to write about her Artist Residency in Motherhood, filled as these months have been with...
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Halloween costumes and picking battles
I have no idea what he’s doing on the right. But I love it. Peanut and I were in England for a few days in August to visit family, and since most things cost less than in Italy, I stocked up on various...
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Let’s try this again
New haircut for a new decade And…I’m back. But this time I’m not doing anything stupid like promising to write regularly. I do have a new plan for getting back on here though. I blog in my head every...
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The personal is the political is the personal: gender equality at home
I am currently lapping up Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender, which tears down study after study ‘proving’ men and women are hardwired to be different, and I recently finished the chapter about...
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The taboo of using the word feminism in Italy
Sometimes you need to pretend to be someone else to do things you’re afraid of. This week I stepped into the (sexy, high-heeled) shoes of a blogger I’ve mentioned here a few times before: M. Elizabeth...
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Do we really still need to celebrate Festa della Donna?
Unlike in North America, where marking March 8 is a newer phenomenon, in Italy there’s a longstanding tradition of celebrating International Women’s Day. One of the loveliest customs is the widespread...
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Mother’s Day and Maternal Subjectivities
Happy Mother’s Day everyone! I got a Mother’s Day miracle myself with Peanut, after waking up at 7:30, actually returning to bed upon my supplication and sleeping until 10! I’m not sure that’s ever...
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