Claudia Flisi
Writer at Freelance
Award-winning bicultural writer of speeches, monographs, marcom, and strategic analysis. Mother, animal lover, traveler, author. @SAISHopkins @MountHolyoke
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2 weeks ago |
cflisi.medium.com | Claudia Flisi
Pizza is a paradigm for almost everything that divides the US and Italy these days. And “Italy” could represent just about anywhere in Europe . . . except that pizza itself is actually, factually better in Il Bel Paese. I was reminded of all this when my husband and I went out for a pizza in the area of Washington, D.C. recently.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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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.
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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.
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March 31 is Malta Freedom Day. Here's more about this unexpectedly exotic island, a key naval base-turned-tourist attraction in the Mediterranean. 📷 https://t.co/QXmNKMveAW
World Wildlife Day is March 3. Among the thousands of species threatened by politics today are the adorable hedgehogs of Europe. Here's what my dog Giada thought about them when she first encountered them a decade ago. https://t.co/kXXYdo3uX4 https://t.co/7DjR6VKltd
An appropriate day to repost one of the great -- albeit unlikely -- love stories of all time: https://t.co/qeUIneHyIm https://t.co/tfwj1X1VsG