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Subito, Presto, Dopo, Mai
Life in Italy can be a waiting game
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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High Seas and Hot Winds
No better time than spring to brush up your italiano
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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March 2024

The Parish Cat
Misleading you with a red-herring title because you probably don't want to hear another word about genealogy
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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Do It Now
Because we don’t have all the time in the world
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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February 2024

Fun with Genealogy
Or, Why I Was Mad at a Dead Ancestor and Now I’m Not
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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(Not) Such a Bargain
The persistent, perplexing infatuation with €1 houses
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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January 2024

Aliens, Activists, and Tuberculosis Windows
Italians and other immigrants in 100 years of New York City history
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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Black Space and Equilibrium
In a gallery in Perugia: one color, two artists, and 500 years of "now"
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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Ghost Story
The creepy life and violent death of Erbanina, resident witch of a castle in Campania
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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December 2023

Airport Runs and Aqueducts
When a jaunt to Fiumicino becomes a road trip of the unexpected kind
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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A New Warm Heart in the Borgo
Going back in time at my neighborhood's latest labor of love
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Cheryl A. Ossola
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Under the Knife in Italy and the U.S.
One surgery, two countries, vastly different experiences
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