✍️ The Questions I Didn’t Prepare For

Monarchy, relationships, with a bullet: one evening in Florence

Mocha and me at the Kent State campus in Florence (L. Mouat photo)

I recently spoke at a university campus in Florence, prepared to discuss Italy’s unwritten rules -- the subtle codes and conventions that make daily life in Italy both maddening and legible. Those “rules” have become a central theme of the Dispatch.

My outline covered territory well known …