Claudia Flisi

3 weeks ago | cflisi.medium.com | Claudia Flisi

Member-only storyCFlisi·Follow6 min read·--by C.Flisi‘We are incredibly varied in spite of our size,” our taxi driver boasted during our 45-minute drive from Malta’s international airport to Cirkewwa on the northern coast. My husband and I had just arrived on the main island (also called Malta) and were trying to reconcile his words with what we knew about the place and what we were seeing outside our car window. What we knew was very little, like the country itself.

1 month ago | cflisi.medium.com | Claudia Flisi

CFlisi·Follow5 min read·--by Alexas_fotos at UnsplashMy human mom told me we were going to meet a new kind of animal in Piedmont. I had to be on best behavior, she said, because dogs are not friendly to these other creatures, and we can pay a prickly price for our intrusiveness. Our destination was Centro Recupero Ricci “La Ninna” in Novello, a village about 40 kilometres northeast of Cuneo. I didn’t know what “ricci” (hedgehogs) were but my mom told me I had encountered one near Mantova years ago.

2 months ago | cflisi.medium.com | Claudia Flisi

Member-only storyCFlisi·Follow5 min read·--photo by C.FlisiDoesn’t anyone else get the feeling that we are frogs in the pot of water, and the temperature is slowly rising (although, heaven forbid, we are not to mention rising temperatures or the terrible “c” word anymore in official documents)? Computers (not the “c” word referenced above) have taken over our existence, and the tech bros control the world.

Nov 17, 2024 | cflisi.medium.com | Claudia Flisi

CFlisi·Follow5 min read·--by C.FlisiI got to thinking about the word “hormone” the other day. As an adolescent, I always smiled at that word because its homophone is designed to make a teenager giggle — whore moan. The reaction it elicited in science class was a perpetual pain in the arse to biology teachers, and pain itself is a homophone, because it can also refer to a sheet of glass, which oh so appropriately can cause significant pain — to the arse or elsewhere — if it shatters.

Oct 25, 2024 | asc.army.mil | Ann Vaughan |Claudia Flisi

THINK DATA: Jennifer Swanson, DASA-DES, left, and Brig. Gen. Robert (RJ) Mikesh, deputy program executive officer for Program Executive Office Enterprise, right, highlight implementing data mesh across the portfolio as the office of primary responsibility during an AUSA panel in October 2024 in Washington. (Photo by Laura Edwards, PEO Enterprise)ASA(ALT) focuses on the foundations and prioritization of digital transformation at AUSA.