Archive - Quotidian Vignettes

How much should you love your work?

To quote Carrie, the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with your...work?

Jun 15 •

Elizabeth Djinis

April 2025

A Rome without a Pope

The death of Pope Francis changed the tenor of the city.

Apr 30 •

Elizabeth Djinis

March 2025

Why Italians' sensitivity to weather is actually the right way to live

With the dawn of spring comes the dawn of my favorite feeling in Italy—relief.

Mar 30 •

Elizabeth Djinis

The inevitable trauma of learning a language

We wanted to believe our speech was passive, unconscious even. But could it ever be?

Mar 9 •

Elizabeth Djinis

February 2025

The darkness of Italian womanhood

What does it mean to be a woman in Italy? The question answered in brief by its women writers.

Feb 4 •

Elizabeth Djinis

December 2024

Ringing out 2024 with my favorite stories!

You are what you write. Or do they say that?

Dec 31, 2024 •

Elizabeth Djinis

October 2024

Does 'Emily in Rome' get Rome right?

Written by an American woman of the same age living in Rome.

Oct 13, 2024 •

Elizabeth Djinis

August 2024

My European summer starter pack

How to pack for your European summer vacation when your European summer vacation is climate change!

Aug 28, 2024 •

Elizabeth Djinis

July 2024

How much tourism is too much?

A subtitle that says it all: I went to Paris.

Jul 16, 2024 •

Elizabeth Djinis

June 2024

Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome

"Always and forevermore, I call to say I'm on the way, two thousand years remain in a trash can that burned a cigarette somewhere," or so goes the…

Jun 15, 2024 •

Elizabeth Djinis

January 2024

What's so special about Vermeer?

I went to the world's largest Vermeer exhibit in Amsterdam in May. Was it all it was cracked up to be?

Jan 19, 2024 •

Elizabeth Djinis

December 2023

A 2023 round-up!

Perhaps more for me than for anyone else: a thought exercise.

Dec 30, 2023 •

Elizabeth Djinis

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