The Personal Is…Academic
[1] In her essay “Beginning with the Self to Critique the Social: Critical Researchers…
Commentaries
Italy, A Tempo Pieno – Between Two Worlds
It has been my experience as an educator and a self-proclaimed ambassador of Italian…
Parenting Challenges of the Digital Age
The digital revolution, mostly driven by an addiction to convenience, speed, and instant…
Light and Space in the Piazza
In 2007, legal immigrants made up 6.2% of the population of Italy. The number of illegal…
Italians’ Gift for Organizing
Italians, it seems, have a special talent for evolving simple concepts into complex and…
Celebrating Italian Food
I have decided that I do not want an engagement ring. What I want instead is an…
Home, Belonging and Identity
My fascination with cultural identity stems from the fact that I grew up immersed in…
Italian Gerontocracy: When the Patch is Worse than the Hole
When Italians see a hot topic, they dive into it with a lust and passion worthy of a…
Dilemmas of a Social Network Addict
All of a sudden, the twit in me has re-surfaced and I’ve been tweeting away.…
A Television Christmas
In the early 1980s, Vancouver’s Italian community was the city’s third largest ethnic…