How a professional dancer from Bologna landed in New York and built a life that's true to who she is.
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Chocolate chip
Learning from the friends of your grandmother and mother is a rite of passage that leads into history.
Doctor talk
Medical brain stretching requires learning your words, and a father can come in handy.
Multiple moons
Many years ago, and not multiple ones, the music of words counted toward greater meaning.
A mother’s Sherlock
A 1970s collage leads mysterious clues to a mother's Italian movements.
Human warming
Europe is slowly but surely catching the panic infection that was born in 2001.
A night to remember
The night before being stuck in the Italian military for a year, the author took an unplanned walk on the wild side.
Bro
When your wife hires a guy named Mark to fix your middle age, it's time to run over a cat.
At peace with terror
The West incongruously "needs" terrorism to remind it of the perils of a deeper sickness.
Tossing out the book
Applying cognitive behavioral therapy too often can yield self-fulfilling prophecies.
Charlie Hebdo’s blood
The Paris attack may seem all about Islamic militancy, but there's a second layer of purpose.
Moons past HAL
In the smart year 2015, the idea of "sleeping on it" gets less than short shrift.