• How to Find Oneself
    This 5 min. read saves you up to 25 hours
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    How to Find Oneself

    During a pandemic. At the age of 50. And without going on a pilgrimage through northern Spain.

  • How Pandemics Change the World
    This 4 min. read saves you up to 37 hours
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    How Pandemics Change the World

    The COVID-19 outbreak will not only have a direct impact on our lives and economies now – the consequences will continue to preoccupy us for several years, if not decades.

  • Don’t Beat Yourself Up When Things Are Not Perfect
    This 2 min. read saves you up to 11 hours
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    Don’t Beat Yourself Up When Things Are Not Perfect

    Ramona Marcionetti, PR and Marketing Manager / Kids: Gion (9 months)

  • “Everything Will Be All Right” – Hopefully
    Gundula Stoll (left): “A woman in our village, who used to sew underwear on contract, has made 100 face masks for everyone […] People have been painting, crocheting and embroidering rainbows with the tagline #andratuttobene - #everythingwillbeallright”
    This 6 min. read saves you up to 9 hours
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    “Everything Will Be All Right” – Hopefully

    Almost three weeks into the total lockdown in Italy, there may be some hopeful signs hidden in the gloom. Yet when I last wrote about the potential impact of restrictions on people’s overall health, I…

  • Be More Forgiving (and Put on Your Noise-Cancelling Headphones)
    Be More Forgiving (and Put on Your Noise-Cancelling Headphones)

    Heather Hodel, Managing Editor of the Classics Library / Kids: Evelyn (6) and Laura (2) 

  • Turn a Corner and There Is Hope
    Turn a Corner and There Is Hope

    For the first time in months, we are receiving good news from China: The number of domestic cases of COVID-19 reported there just dropped to zero. So, what is life like in Beijing? And what…

  • Locked Up and Going Loco?
    The same view of the Corso of Spoleto as last week, but in daylight. (Gundula Stoll)
    Locked Up and Going Loco?

    Today it’s day 10 of the total lockdown that has effectively turned all of Italy into a ghost country: Bars, restaurants and non-essential businesses must remain closed, and people are only allowed to leave their…

  • “Let’s Stop This Together”
    Picture from the abandoned small town of Spoleto yesterday evening 6.30 pm - actually peak time for the Passeggiata, when the Spoletini usually walk up and down the street, have an aperitivo, and above all want to see and be seen. (Gundula Stoll)
    “Let’s Stop This Together”

    Italy is the first European country affected by a large-scale coronavirus outbreak – being about eight to 10 days ahead of development in other major countries. What is the current situation on the ground? And…

  • It Shouldn’t Take a Virus to Let Employees Work from Home
    It Shouldn’t Take a Virus to Let Employees Work from Home

    The hidden benefits of remote work are surprisingly plentiful.