ten months old and never been tagged

But I’m not shy, so I’ll share five things you don’t know about me:

1)  I don’t have perfect pitch, but if there’s something very close to it, that’s what I”ve got. (I don’t mean to make it sound like a condition—I love music!)

2) English is not my native language.

3) I was born a lefty and forced rightward…handedness-wise, that is. (And maybe politics-wise, too, but that’s a subject for another day.)

My parents deny it, but I don’t believe them. In Europe, people believe that left-handedness is sinister, literally: sinistra in Latin means “left.” In France, if you’re a lefty you write with your “gauche” hand. Really! What is wrong with these people!? They are completely irrational on the subject.

Anyway, I do all sorts of things with my left hand—I reach for things with my left hand, turn dorknobs with my left hand, pour with my left hand, etc. I also drive my family crazy by twisting those twist-tie thingies with my left hand, and the righties can never figure out now to un-twist them; instead, they twist them even tighter. Ha!).

4) I would like to live on the Gulf of the Poets, in Lerici, Italy, half the year. Every year.

5) I hate blogging pseudonymously. I do it because it alone guarantees my freedom of speech.