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Jun 9, 20201 min read
Mask fashion: Italian style never wanes
Italian fashion masks!
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Jun 6, 20201 min read
Crazy Italian confessional adventures
A plastic screen for confession ... but no one can hear!
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Jun 5, 20201 min read
Hospitality as Mission: Evangelizing through Delight
We were honored when Blessed is She featured this lovely article on our Mission Marriage and charism of hospitality.
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Jun 2, 20201 min read
Interview: Marriage & Faith
Interivew on Q-Whips with Bree & Terese: faith, marriage, sparkling light during difficulty, Our Crazy Rome LIfe & living Christian life
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Jun 1, 20201 min read
Restaurants: closing or coping
There are so many restaurants on our street which haven’t reopened. Today, we walked into one business on our street and the owner was a...
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May 28, 20201 min read
Kindness Explosion! Feature: Sparklers Diaries on The Kindness Blog
I was delighted that the good work of the Sparklers Community and the Sparklers' Diaries were recently highlighted by Nicole J Philips on...
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May 23, 20201 min read
Roman Market "tries" Italian-style Social Distancing
Well, to say the least, there’s certainly never a dull moment where Italians are concerned! For example, you’d think that a trip to the...
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May 22, 20202 min read
Rome is Waking Up. And loves its sanitzer
First weekday Mass report after lockdown
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May 20, 20201 min read
And we're live! Singin' Alleluia!
Imagine, Peter and Paul would have done the same thing in the 1st century here in Rome.
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May 18, 20201 min read
Strange "aides" at church
A few new odd additions at our post-lockdown church.
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May 10, 20201 min read
Sharing challenges of quarantine; interview
Marie Poza is an integrative nutrition and lifestyle specialist with a serious passion to help women and their families become the best...
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Apr 27, 20201 min read
Technology & the Church; pros and cons?
Technology has been such a blessing during Lockdown! It's allowed us to have some contact with the outside world, to stay connected with...
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Apr 23, 20201 min read
Hope in Quarantine
We were interviewed by Fr. Dominique Rimaz in Switzerland and this is what he says about it: "Notre folle vie romaine, bienvenue à Ashley...
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Apr 13, 20201 min read
To Dress or Not to Dress?
Should we bother getting dressed during Lockdown?
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Apr 2, 20201 min read
"What is Faith?" Us, live with NYC Archdiocese
For the Archdiocese of NY: "What is Faith and how to live it? ESPECIALLY in Quarantine!???"
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Apr 2, 20201 min read
Us: Why to have Hope?
The Religious Freedom Institute gave John and me an interesting challenge. They asked, "what is the reason for your hope during COVID19?"
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Mar 11, 20201 min read
Quickly Locking down in Rome!
Things quickly locking down in Rome
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Jan 1, 20201 min read
Welcome! We're John & Ashley
Ciao! We're expats living far from the countries of our birth - the USA and India. Somehow we have found ourselves right in the middle,...
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