I live and work in Florence, Italy. My international spirit travels with an American passport but I’ve long since lost count of all the relevant metrics. I am very much at home in Europe. Italy as been my cultural north star since 2004. I moonlight as a legal researcher for a local law firm. My off-hours are filled with parenting, managing various people and projects, and literature. I have worked professionally in higher education, international education, software development, fine art, and writing and publishing. Learn More about Monica
Italy held what turned out to be historic elections on September 25. A right-wing coalition triumphed, sweeping in to power a new prime minister in
Friends, readers, lend me your eyes! After a two-month hiatus I am back with a new website, redesigned for your reading ease. Since my posts
Guys, I love the film The Little Hours, and I was delighted to recently learn that the same team now brings us a new feature-length
I’m not gonna lie. When I moved back to Oklahoma from Seattle in 2004, the weather was near the top of my list of things
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I have been following with interest the news in recent months about artificial intelligence – whether or not it is sentient. This new article in
