Good morning from Milano. Bye bye, South America. Hello, Europe. You are chilly, but it does feel good to be home. Now, of course it’s no longer my ‘real home’, but Milan was my home for 18 years. I have such great friends here, I feel so loved, and I have absolutely incredible memories. So yes,  it feels special to be spending the holiday here.

As I was out and about this morning, I was thinking that there are many places throughout Milan that I walk by and I can see the shop owners or the children of the shop owners that were there 30 years ago. That can be anything from the cleaners or the pharmacist to the gelateria. There’s something incredibly heartwarming about it. So even while I’ve been away – you know I’ve been in the United States 18 years now, almost the exact amount of time I spent in Italy –  yet when I come back here, the familiarity is fueled by so many different things. Of course it’s friends and colleagues, but it’s also those people I see walking down the street.

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