Hard-working single mamma, bookish, bohemian introvert. Nurturing, questioning, determined. Silly, sweet and despite all the earnestness on this page, I don't really take myself all that seriously.

"I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of
me is a miracle.
Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch
or am touch'd from,
The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
This head more than churches, bibles and all the creeds."
-WW

Trying to meet the challenges of paying my rent and raising my son.
Apparently most of my matches are travelling around the world and engaging in creative pursuits. For now, my mind is focused on the small corner of the world where I live. But it's a fascinating place. Even the palm of a hand can contain worlds.

Languages.
Making pancakes.
Noticing things that others don't notice.
Drawing faces.

That I look like a foreigner.
Sono in carne ma anche in gamba.

"The Superlative Horse" Jean Merrill
"A Book of Nonsense" Edward Lear
"The Four Elements" Roz Chast
"Alice in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll
"Italian Folktales" Italo Calvino
"Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" Lawrence Weschler
"Lolita" Nabokov
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" Flannery O'Conner
"The Martian Chronicles" Ray Bradbury

I have a special place in my heart for writers writing about cross-cultural experiences (Suketu Mehta, Juno Diaz, Adam Gopnik...) and all around engrossing novelists like Ian McEwan, Michael Chabon, Barbara Kingsolver. I am also fascinated by history, anthropology, linguistics and translation.

Short stories!!

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. (I know they aren't cool, but they are like old friends I turn to for comfort).

I would happily spend hours looking at product labels and comparing the languages and looking at an Atlas for place names I like without really improving my geography.

Contemporary in-depth journalism (periodicals with tiny print).

Some favorite movies:
"Wings of Desire" (Il Cielo sopra Berlino) Wim Wenders
"Rear Window" Hitchcock
"Roma" Fellini
"Una giornata particolare" Ettore Scola
"Ieri oggi e domani" De Sica
"Pecker" John Waters
"Be Kind Rewind" Gondry
"Singing in the Rain"
"Rosemary's Baby" Polanski
Films about distopias (Brazil, Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, etc etc)

TV: The Wire, Project Runway...
Boris!

Old school jazz and blues, (Davis, Coltrane, Cole Porter Songbook), soul and funk, Caetano Veloso, some country (Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash) 90s indie and ska (Pixies, Operation Ivy), Old school rap/hiphop (Public Enemy), silly/soundtracks (surf music, Edith Piaf), Italian: D'Andrè, Guccini, Gaber, Rino Gaetano....and lots of other stuff in between, including things from this decade

Puntarelle alla romana, castagnole, espresso con la cremina, granita siciliana, most things with lemon or fruit or ginger or anice...and many many more, of course

An eat-in kitchen. Why shouldn't you be able to share a glass of wine and talk with other people while cooking? They can also help knead the dough or peel the potatoes.
Books.
My eyes.
A pen and paper.
Hot water/showers and indoor plumbing. Love it.
Un piumone in winter and breezes in summer.
Sex and human relationships
Learning new things.

Patterns. Form, color, shape and proportion. Nonsense literature.

Whether I should tell the children playing outside my window to stop playing with firecrackers.

What I should do next.

The Dating Game with Dictators

either vertical or horizontal.

I often overhear my neighbors having sex. It's not too loud and they seem to be enjoying themselves. Usually, it makes me happy....like the building has a warm vibration that reaches through the foundations and makes us aware of others living out their separate lives, so far away and yet so close. UPDATE: Yesterday they had a love-making marathon that lasted for hours. Afterwards, I could hear him singing in the shower. She was probably unconscious at that point. I do hope they balance out my other neighbors, a couple whom I've called the police on more than once for domestic abuse. It's like heaven and hell coexist in the same building.

Oh, and I'm actually 38. I'm just experimenting with definitions and messing up okc algorithms.

You are just looking for an interesting conversation, comparing experiences and perspectives, but do not take yourself too seriously (I don't!) or are looking for someone to go out for a beer, a movie or a museum.

I would like to meet a photographer who might be interested in working with me on a project about neighborhoods in Rome.

Se non parli inglese, non temere: parlo italiano, romanaccio e un pizzico di napoletano (se vuoi fare veramente una risata..;-)