Kimberly Menozzi's Blog

I am always of two minds in regard to the United States. I both miss it terribly and am happy to be away from there, particularly when I see how things have gone there in the last six years or so (and I write this in 2022, to be clear).

Since I came to Italy to stay, eighteen years ago, I have lost a lot of my family in the US. My father and stepfather both passed away in 2009. My mother passed in 2017, my sister and grandmother in 2020, and my aunt in 2022. I have not been home since my mother’s...

It has been a long time since I’ve sat down to write. At least, to write anything longer than a comment or a short post on Facebook. The reason for this is, unfortunately, rather difficult to break down, but I’m going to try to do that, here.

If we’re not connected via FB or in real life, you likely won’t know what has been going on with me in the last few years. I’ll recap what some of you already know, first:

Around Christmas of 2014, I had plans to begin work/finalize what I had completed so fa...

I woke up this morning during my annual holiday in the US to find a message in my inbox, already several hours old. A friend, in England, asking if my husband and I were okay. He'd heard about the earthquake in Italy, he said, and he wanted to check in on us.

My stomach slowly rolled over, and I found other emails asking the same thing - notices that friends had queried on my Facebook wall to see if my husband and I were all right, do we live close to the epicenter?

With quiet dread, we checked...

The hubby and me, in Pisa, Italy in 2006.

Ciao a tutti! Hi, everybody! It's me again, after some time away, and this week, I thought I'd share some of my TV addiction with you. You see, I don't really watch a lot of TV, for the most part, but since Netflix came to Italy last November...? I still don't watch a *lot* of TV, but my hubby and I have found ourselves hooked on a few shows in particular. Some are ongoing, some are over now, sadly, and others have us on tenterhooks, eagerly waiting for more episodes to arrive on Netflix Ital...

Venetian mask shop, May, 2006

Me in my Easter finest, 197?

Ciao a tutti! Hi, everybody! I'm back again for Thursday Thirteen, and this week, I'm keeping it simple by sharing something we can all identify with: that stack of books (or the bookshelf, in some cases) yet to be investigated at length.

Let's jump in and see what we have in common, shall we? Thirteen Books in my To Be Read Pile! Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornu...