How (Not) to get Arrested in Sicily
How a short trip to my father’s homeland became a quick lesson in the use of language and connection to avoid arrest.
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MAD Italian
MAD Italian – Moments of Madness
This MAD Italian has plenty to laugh about. Stories of everyday moments that have gone embarrassingly wrong, mainly because of my propensity to get lost in a daydream.
It is said that the moment you learn to laugh at yourself is the moment you grow up.
The ability to laugh at life and to laugh at one’s self plays an important role in personal development, particularly in the area of self confidence and resilience.
In other words, if you don’t laugh, you cry.
These are the moments of mistaking a customer for a shop assistant and getting annoyed with them for not helping; meeting a celebrity and asking who they are; or mistakenly walking into the men’s toilets and ordering the teen boys to leave because you’re convinced it’s the ladies’. It’s almost getting arrested in an Italian airport and later becoming besties with the police officer. Or getting locked in a building because you lost track of time, daydreaming on the loo.
Why else do you think I’m called the MAD Italian!
When you live with ADHD or Neurodiversity, these moments are commonplace. How you respond to them will determine how you define yourself and how others define you.
Laughing at yourself and laughing at life is best way to accept yourself, warts and all.
Living with ADD
The Wandering Mind In the past I’ve shared my propensity for getting sidetracked in the loo and talking to strange men at Bunnings . The sad thing is, my experience with toilets and strange men is not limited to those two episodes. Quite the opposite in fact. I have a long history with toilets and strange men and
OOPS! I did it again!
As I straddled the window that Friday night, one foot inside and one in the garden, alarm blaring behind me and my Daihatsu Charade as a getaway car parked in the back parking lot, it occurred to me that I had a lot of explaining to do should the police arrive. When you spend a large
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The Trip Of A Lifetime
When hubby came home late in 2018 with the news that he’d booked long service leave, we already had a good idea of where we would go. After all, we’d only been talking about it for nearly 30 years. The biggest difficulty back then was in narrowing down our itinerary. Hubby had no overseas travel
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Who is the Mad Italian?
The Mad Italian I first heard that phrase when my good friend (who is now called hubby) introduced me to one of his friends, who upon our introduction exclaimed So you’re the Mad Italian! I never questioned the fact that he had a name for me. I remember asking him about it and he just
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