• C'est moi

    VP of Marketing & Communications for Rackup, but nothing here reflects what my employer or colleagues think. In fact, they probably think it's all cray-cray.

    Jackie Danicki
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Baby names

We’ve been going through baby names for the last four hours - not because I’m pregnant, but because I’m insane and Antoine is patient. So far, the only violent disagreements have been over the names Tiberius and Lucretia (go figure - apparently they weren’t exactly role models). Also:
ME: Do you like Brita for a girl? […]

The only way is up

…Weather-wise, anyway. We didn’t leave the hotel until 3.45, just in time for it to start raining - hard. ‘Lunch’: For me, proper lasagna (none of this bechamel nonsense); for Antoine, salami, onion, and courgette pizza; for us both, a shared starter antipasto plate of parma ham, mortadella, salami, roast artichoke, aubergine and courgette, olives, […]

It’s 2006 in Italy

After gawking at the Pope and wishing my grandmother had lived to see Rome, we got rained on a LOT on our way to dinner. The place Adriana recommended was shut, but just around the corner we had a very satisfying Italian seafood feast.
Four courses, three Bellinis, and two limoncellos later, we were full and […]