Update from Italy: Thursday, March 12
Your local reporter on the ground in lockdown is back with today’s update from Florence. Of course, even more news happened last night after I
Your local reporter on the ground in lockdown is back with today’s update from Florence. Of course, even more news happened last night after I
Today merits an additional post as I struggle to understand, in the middle of all this, here in Italy, where we are, and where we
It’s a sunny gorgeous day in late winter. And yet Victor was up by seven this morning, hopping around when I woke up, in tears
This is not a drill. News is moving even faster than I thought it would. A lot of news out of Italy in last 24
Day three of the nationwide school closure here. Eleanor (age 5) can do this, and survive it. It is going to be a far more
Another busy news weekend in Italy on the frontlines of Covid-19. At 3:30 Sunday morning, the Italian government enacted an updated decree in further attempts
It is an extremely quiet day in Florence. Our family is working on equilibrium in the new circumstances of the school closures. We’ve brought the
We’re on Day 2 of the school closures. They’re set to be closed until March 15. Jason and I have been talking about what this
Yesterday, after much back and forth in the afternoon waiting for the Italian government and the relevant Italian ministries to get on the same page,
I don’t have much to report from Florence today. Everything here is calm and normal, minus Jason’s workload and office, since the American programs have