Today is the 20th anniversary of my First Holy Communion! It took place the 21st of May 1989, I was 8 and a half years old and I was wearing the same dress my sister had worn for her Communion in 1979. I was a little girl wearing a beige thick fabric...

I had never paid special attention to building sites until I had one in front of my house in Milan. There use to be a row of old houses on the other side of the street and one day when I was walking round the corner I heard a great roar: they were knocking...