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Archive for June, 2009

bambina deliziosa

(observe: another post, and I’ve already done two this month!)
The first time I came to Italy, in June 1994 when I was 8 years old, nearly 9 (or was it 1993, when I was 7 years old, nearly 8??  I am suddenly filled with doubts.), I was eaten alive by mosquitoes.  This led my mom’s [...]

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on a slightly more sober note

Lately I’ve been occupying myself with research about Bologna just before, during, and just after after World War II.  This might seem a little odd, for while I love history, World War II has been significantly out of my interest zone.  This interest has grown slowly but steadily over the past couple of years.  I [...]

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I really need to mop…

…So I’ll update my blog for the first time in months instead.
Life is sailing along at a pretty tranquil pace.  My courses at Anglo American have ended, and at the moment I’m teaching three intensive courses.  This sounds hard, but the fact is that the courses are much tougher on the students than on us.  [...]

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