The Naked Truth

A monthly catch-all of the trials, errors and revelations of an American expat moving abroad to Sicily, Italy

Steven Lee Gilbert
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Belonging

A series exploring the decisions, changes, and principles we stuck to that made moving to Sicily possible.

Steven Lee Gilbert
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How to Stop Spending Money

A series exploring the decisions, changes, and principles we stuck to that made moving to Sicily possible.

Steven Lee Gilbert
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How Quitting a Job 15 Years Ago Made Moving to Sicily Possible

When Quitting is not Quitting, But Just Rebelling Better The final scene in the 2016 film Captain Fantastic involves no words, no gestures, no finishing, fading camera shots. It didn’t involve much of anything, really. Just the turn of a head from a table of children starting their day

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Entanglement

For this month's Naked Truth, a never before published short story of real events which never happened but had they, they might've gone something like this.

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The Story of a House

How the poem Eros Turannos helped me see beyond the death of my father and understand better the joy and happenstance of sharing a life together.

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Introducing The Naked Truth

Our monthly catch-all more specific to the trials, errors and revelations of a couple of unfinished, aspiring expats moving to Sicily.