Olive On The Apple Tree is a home for writing about inheritance — cultural, emotional, political, and spiritual.

This publication explores Italian and Italian-American life, family stories, food, memory, migration, resistance, humor, and the quiet ways history lives on in our bodies and homes. It’s about what gets passed down, what gets lost, and what we choose to carry forward.

Some pieces are personal. Some are political. Many are both. All of them are grounded in lived experience, cultural memory, and a belief that storytelling is a form of continuity — and sometimes, repair.

If you’re interested in heritage without nostalgia, politics without posturing, and stories that hold both grief and joy, you’re in the right place.

For my writing on power, politics, and personal transformation, you can also find me at forlanojulianna.substack.com.