You ARE my subject
January 15th, 2007
Everyday I think about what I might have to say here. Everyday I sift through the things I have done and photographed and try to find one that fits the day or my mood. Everyday. Even the editor of Vogue doesn’t have to do that every single day. And she has help!
Your comments do any number of useful things. It inspires me to know someone is reading. It helps me to understand what interests people. I learn things I didn’t know before, or get a different slant on something I do know.
I write this blog for you. This is not a blog in which I ponder which $2000 purse I should buy, nor how will I get the attention of that cute boy in Geometry class (how will I?) There are not many of those any more. A blog is no longer an online diary. A blog is rarely True Confessions in the Digital Age nowadays. I’ve heard that if that’s what you want, MySpace is a place to start.
So, talk to me! Tell me when I am full of it or when I need to get out more!
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11 Comments Add your own
1. sognatrice | January 15th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
I, for one, am grateful that you’re not asking for advice on which $2000 purse to buy. I’d never have anything to say, being greatly undereducated in the fashion accessory arena.
2. MissJo | January 16th, 2007 at 12:10 am
And I had rather listen to you than talk myself. You know and experience good stuff. Personally I’m grateful you share.
You go girl! Jo
3. Ginger | January 16th, 2007 at 7:24 am
For me Jan-March weighs like a ton of pasta around my waist and around my head, thanks for helping me get out of the pot.
Ginger in appreciation
4. Judith | January 16th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Starting in Lent, this blog goes on its annual diet. All food posted here will be delicious, low carb, healthy stuff, or there won’t be any food at all.
There is after all my other blog, which is inspiring if one is on a diet. It is the one under “Living in Egypt.”
5. Gianna | January 16th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Thanks to you I can appreciate Italian food which is common to me, and I’ m particularly interested in your opinion about Italian way of leaving, fashion, music. I couldn’t imagine to read the text of “Ancora” by De Crescenzo on your blog. It’s always a source of surprise. Thanks for writing it.
6. nicki | January 16th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
It is nice to receive feedback isn’t it! Thanks for teaching me to cook things I couldn’t cook before, and thank you for the inspiring comments you leave for me!
7. MissJo | January 17th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Yes, I do have something i’d love to read more about. I enjoyed and shared your
Italian Fashion Contents:
Summer 2006 - What are they Wearing?: What they are wearing and recommendations for dealing with the sun and heat (sunscreen, makeup).
Photos
Other Italian Fashion Articles
How to Tie Your Scarf like a Roman: While in Rome.
etc., etc. DELIGHTFUL
How about what to wear to an opra, afternoon or everning.
8. Judith | January 17th, 2007 at 8:07 am
I am truly humbled by some of these comments. It will be so much easier to stay fresh and inspired if people talk back to me. You don’t know how important it really is.
Gianna, you know we have much to learn from each other. I learn from you all the time.
Miss Jo, knowing you all these years has always been an education to me. One of the most shocking cookery exposès ever was when you told me how to cook pasta overnight on a radiator.
9. Waspgoddess | January 17th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I have recently found out how to do a grilled cheese sandwich using an iron (simply wrap the sandwich in aluminium foil and iron it), so I would love to know how to cook pasta on a radiator. Please share:)
I would also enjoy reading stories on how you learnt to speak Italian (I have just had my first lesson).
10. Judith | January 17th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Oh dear, you are encouraging Jo! Jo has seven children and they are all grown, so they obviously survived her cooking. Her tip was: when traveling, fix spaghetti by pouring hot water over it in a Thermos and leaving it on a radiator for many hours.
A better story is how I didn’t learn Italian. I studied classical Italian at university and learned to read Dante, but didn’t know the words for plumber or brassiere when I got here.
My neighbor came and told me something about reggiseno sotto il filo, and I thought she was telling me the mobile mammograph van was on the road under the electric wires. Reggi =direct, seno = breast, sotto = under, filo = wire. She was saying I had dropped a bra under the clothesline.
11. MissJo | January 20th, 2007 at 3:06 am
Judith, Please give tips on what to wear to an opera, afternoon or evening in Italy. Thanks ever so…
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