Change is here. But first! Before we get into it, I want to thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart for supporting Surviving In Italy for these past ten years, for buying my book, Naked, and making it a bestseller, and for making me feel like I have a supportive and wonderful community of folks around the world. With that being said, my life has changed, and the internet has changed, and in order to keep up with the times, I have to change, too. Blogging is expensive. But I love it. So I had to find a new way to share my stories without breaking the bank. An influencer frie ..read more

You know that you’re making some questionable choices when you’re unphased at a dance club on a Thursday night, when a young man lifts his shirt (displaying a tattoo on his stomach that says “Lizard”) to pull a gun out of his underpants and point it directly at your very drunk friend who (despite wearing a bright red cocktail dress and six inches stilettos) has her fists balled up and is stalking towards him with hellfire in her eyes. It happened in Utah, which is in the United States, so the fact that someone pulled a gun out is unfortunately not as shocking as my reaction, which was to roll ..read more

Often, we think that ambitious people have it all together, and their drive for excellence propels them forward. And by “we,” I mean western culture and, more specifically, American culture, but I happen to know that it’s not true at all. The driving force behind ambition is chaos or a black hole, or chaos happening inside of a black hole (listen, I’m not a goddamn scientist, so please don’t comment about how this isn’t how chaos works. Just go with it). Excruciating anxiety. Dread. Monumental change. Divorce. Nagging insecurity. Or, in my case, death.  My little brother struggled with ad ..read more

We’re all trapped in quarantine-land and feeling a little, uhm, antsy? Now is the perfect time to get Naked and Lusty. WOO-HA! And that’s why me and fellow author, Jasmine, are going to do a virtual reading of our books, Naked (in Italy) and Wander (lust) tomorrow on Instagram LIVE. Also, for the sake of solidarity, the eBook version of Naked is available for only $2.99 during the quarantine from everywhere eBooks are sold (Apple Books, Barnes, and Noble, Amazon, Etc). Mother’s day is right around the corner, yall! Give her the book filled with adventure, travel, vaginas, sex, forbidden l ..read more

Recently, Francesco and I took our little Leone on a maiden voyage to see his Italian family near Naples. Since we’re currently living in Salt Lake City (hail the home of the sister wives!) it was a long, long, trip with an infant. We were nervous.  Leading up to the trip I bought no less than 25,000 toys, everything from teethers to book and some terrifying octopus thing that’s supposed to be good for development. We prepped and packed, and I watched so many videos on taking babies on long trips which is where I first heard of the on-flight bassinet. We asked for it. We begged for it. At that ..read more

Hello yall! So most of you already know that over the past few years I’ve been working on a book and I finally finished and now Naked (in Italy) is available for pre-order on Amazon. If you’re in the US and prefer the indie route (support your local bookstores!) You can order it on October 1 through IndieBound when it’s officially released or find it where books are sold. This is definitely the most exciting/terrifying thing that has happened to me since pushing my son out of my lady garden. Publishing a book is like birth, right? Kind of? Look, mom, no shirt!Official Description of Naked ..read more

When a lot of people think Italy, they think romance. The country often brings images to mind of canoodling in cobblestone streets or falling in love with a passionate local. But in my opinion, Italy is one of the best places to vacation with friends. Screw the romance, ditch your partner, call your friends and head off to Italy for one of the best goddamn trips of your life. When’s the last time you did something with friends, anyway? With work, life, marriage, kids, poodles, etc., it’s all too often that our friendships get put on the back-burner for all of these other relationships and resp ..read more

NAKED (In Italy) will be released soon! Pre-orders will be available soon! I’ll keep you updated. Tell your fam, tell your sister-wives, tell your poker buddies and book club to grab a copy to keep me stocked in wine and also make it possible for me to continue to write for a living and to prove that one junior high principal who told me I’d never amount to anything wrong (take that, you twat!). What’s it about? Well here’s the unofficial (unproofread) blurb: At twenty-seven years old, M. E. Evans had just graduated from college, twice, and still had no idea what to do with her life besides f ..read more

So my in-laws recently stayed with us for a month to hang out with my little. A month is a long, long, long time to have any kind of house guest but it’s an eternity when said houseguests are a little, uhm, overbearing and neurotic? I’ve heard. I wouldn’t know. Because my in-laws are lovely.  While at my house for a month, we experienced the usual criticism from my MIL. Starting with, “Why isn’t your house more clean, ugh, I guess I’ll have to clean it” (we hired a professional house cleaner the morning of the day they arrived and the women spent 7 hours scrubbing every centimeter of my house ..read more

I’ve been gone, for like a really long time. WHY? Well, I had a baby! Yes, apparently they’ll let just anyone do that now. Everyone, meet the coolest infant on this side of the sun: Leonardo Eliot. Fresh from the womb, BOOM! Fresh out the womb. A womb graduate, if you will. Being his mom is amazing because he’s the happiest baby I’ve ever met, is the most alert baby I’ve ever met (like, so alert I worry that someone is slipping him baby meth) and also because he makes noises like a dinosaur. But also being a mom is kicking my ass. Guys, I didn’t even know it was possible to stay awake ..read more