The true meaning behind cultivating la Dolce Vita…. It was a few days ago that I sent an email to my partner Mirko asking him if he thought Italians still lived la dolce vita…I had a specific reason for asking..He sent me an email back, and in the subject line wrote "La Dolce Vita my ass"… "Italy is the last country where people savor the joy of living. It makes us believe it even when Italy herself has ceased to believe…" This go...

Is there ever a time when Love is Not Enough? No story would be complete without a little drama. Remembering back on my last day in Australia, I stood at the rocks and looked over the ocean to ponder about the next steps I was taking in my life. Never in my wildest dreams would I have even considered what was in store for me… After my visit to Italy for my birthday in May and the debauchery at the Be Centre and all the mess it caused I tried relentlessly ...

I have one week left until I embark on my trip to Italy.Like everything the past few years, once again my life is in a holding pattern and about to shift dramatically.Only this time is very different from all the rest…this time I have learned lessons that are taking me to that next "phase" of my life. When I say the next phase, I mean my 30's.While I have to do some serious contemplation about my next move….I have done the legwork to get to this...

"Semplicemente, vorrei essere con te….Simply, I want to be with you"……. It was one year ago today that my entire world shifted. I was sitting in my grungy New York apartment when I got the news my grandfather had passed from this world.You can never truly prepare yourself for a death of a loved one, I do remember sitting on the bathroom floor with Dolce, my little hairy best friend, on my leg…I cried for hours alone. Looking back, I wasn't cr...

I was on a canoe in the Sydney harbor when 2010 arrived…actually I was standing up against a rock on a small beach contemplating how to get my canoe off the oysters and back into the water….I had met a new friend that night who was also on the rock with me. We were watching the fireworks over the harbor bridge and he was talking about love, families and kids…I didn't push him in the water…although the thought crossed my mind.I was able to tune him out a...