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I’m Jennie

American mom, former executive, now living the slow life in a 700-year-old village in Puglia, Italy. I moved here to give my kids a different pace of life and to build something more intentional.

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Slow Living in Italy Isn't Something You Buy. It's Everything You Give Up.
Slow Living in Italy Isn't Something You Buy. It's Everything You Give Up.

Slow living in Italy, at least the version I'm actually living in Puglia, is a subtraction practice. You give things up, you grieve them honestly, and what's left underneath turns out to be the thing you were trying to buy all along.

What Moving My Family to Italy Has Really Taught Me (Almost a Year In).
What Moving My Family to Italy Has Really Taught Me (Almost a Year In).
The Most Expensive Clothes in Your Closet Aren't the Ones With the Highest Price Tags
The Most Expensive Clothes in Your Closet Aren't the Ones With the Highest Price Tags

The most expensive clothes in your closet are the ones you never wear. Here's the one mindset shift that changed everything about how I shop.