Archives for 2022

Easter in Stilicone

We got up very early that Sunday morning. It was the first Easter day we had ever spent in our new flat in Via Flavio Stilicone and to celebrate we invited our closest relatives to lunch: my father, Marta’s aunts, her cousins, a number of people too large for the space we had available. We […]

When Power Makes You Dull and Dumb

Military experience, what used to be compulsory military service, has taught generations of Italians not so much how to shoot, which fortunately there has been little need since the end of the second world war, but to understand the stupidity of many human behaviours linked to a hierarchical power system. One morning I was on […]