This is a Mistake

A monthly, catch-all roundup of trying, failing, and moving on.

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Here, because why not?

Part Three of the question: Why here? What is it about Troina that drew us here? My answer may surprise you.

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Why Troina?

Part Two of the question: Why here? What is it about Troina that drew us here?

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Crunching Numbers to find the Right Words

Part One of the question: Why here? A Comparative Cost Analysis of Living in Sicily vs. the US

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Into Traffic

There is a street and on it the traffic is intense. Cars, Vespas, three-wheeled Apes zipping along, people passing on foot. Oblivious toward me, but not blind. They know I am there, they can see me through the window of the backseat of the car in which I am sitting

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Belonging

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

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Pickle or Paradise?

The year closes with our first Christmas holiday in Sicily, away from family, asking ourselves more than ever the question: Is this the land of our dreams or put us in the tightest spot.

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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.

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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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This is a Mistake

The trials, errors and revelations of moving to Sicily

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Pros, Cons and Commitments

We leave our homes with a map and all the sayings: It’s the journey that matters. Not all who wander are lost. Destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. While all

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