I lived in Italy up until two years ago, and I never imagined having such a great new life in New York. Traveling is a great way to learn about the cultures of other countries, but living in a new city is really the best way to learn about people’s thinking, habits, traditions, and language. …
Tag: Italy
Autumn
It wasn’t the first time that Simon was about to perform onstage, but still he was very tense, as he was all the time. From backstage, he could see the shining black piano reflecting on the polished wood floor, and the first three rows of spectators in the twilight—the rest of them were wrapped in …
Ellis Island
When, almost three years ago, I found out that my husband and I had to move to New York, I couldn’t believe it. It seemed like a sign of destiny to us. There is a common thread that ties us to the United States.
Death from 6860 Kilometers
My father was 78 years old when I decided to emigrate abroad with my husband for the first time. My father wasn’t too old but not young either.
Joy
* I am almost 50 years old, but I still feel like a little girl inside. My husband and I have been in love for 20 years now. I know it’s not a very popular choice, but we have decided to walk the path of our lives alone, without children. Probably some circumstances have influenced …
Reflections on 2020: Our Six-Word Memoirs
Six feet apart from my shoes.
—Ashly Cabral Arno
Eating to live; oops, the opposite!
—Vanina Bousquet
A bad time for lipstick lovers.
—Francis Almonte
One House, Many Tenants
In that house, that big house of yellow sandstone with iron balconies on that crooked and black-lava road, the road that seemed to walk on the slopes of the volcano and on which every door looked like a crater, my grandparents lived. My great-grandparents had lived there, their parents had lived there, and so on, out of the time of this story.
Dear Friend
Dear Friend,
I am finally writing to you from New York. I had wanted to do it for a long time, but as you can imagine, one always looks for a moment propitious to the heart and to the imagination these days, when everything is marked by trains, by new appointments, or more simply by the search for food.
Ballerina Girl
Children have a lot of dreams, and when I was a child, my dream was to be a ballerina, like many young girls. Can you imagine a little girl entering a dance studio for the first time, after she has been imagining it for years? I was only five years old, but I remember that …