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Mom’s Blueberry Pie Recipe

By popular demand, Mom’s Blueberry Pie Recipe Pastry for 9” pie: 2 cups flour 1 tsp salt 2/3 cup plus tbsp more shortening 4 tbsp  water   Mix dough and then divide in half for upper and lower crust....

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Heroic Mamma: Aung San Suu Kyi

French Director Luc Besson’s latest film “The Lady” was presented yesterday at the Rome Film Festival.  It is about Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.   The film is a beautiful and...

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“You’re Just Fine”

Note to Blog Readers: I have just finished reading Alexandra Fuller’s lovely book “Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness” and was inspired to write a few lines about my own experiences in...

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My Lost Opportunity to Become a Princess

Part II – The Mini Purply Eggplant and My Lost Opportunity to Become a Princess Fast-forward ahead 7 years from the Batrasi Resthouse in West Pakistan to Nairobi, Kenya. My father was working as part...

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The Missing Pocket Watch and a Thorny Situation

Part III The Missing Pocket Watch and How I Ended up in a Thorny Situation There was never a dull moment in Kenya and when the next Christmas vacation rolled around we found ourselves with our family...

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The Italian Super Mamma

Dear Blog Readers:  Several of you pointed out to me an article in the “Wall Street Journal”, “Why French Parents are Superior” and asked for my thoughts and opinions in comparison to the Italian...

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Fevers, Food and Clothing

Part II Fevers, Food and Clothing As an American living in Italy, I have learned that Italian mammas spend their days measuring their child’s fevers. When a child has the flu, the mamma has to measure...

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Leo in the Sandbox, Nico in the Tree

Part III – Leo in the Sandbox, Nico in the Tree Although I am against fruit loops at Mass, I have a typical American belief in allowing kids a fair amount of liberty, unlike the French and Italians....

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Not the Dolce Vita

Part IV – Life of the Italian Super-Mamma – Not the ‘Dolce Vita’ As recent articles have shown, traditions, manners, discipline and parenting habits can vary dramatically from one country to the next,...

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