Tropics, Travel, and Transformation
Imagine you are about to get fired. You can use different language if you want to: laid off, downsized, contract terminated or canceled, whatever phrase you choose, but you get the gist. One day you
Continue readingAfter a six-week absence, I returned to the United States for the holidays, and as I suspected when I left, things are not the same. I do not mean the colder weather, or the political
Continue readingIt makes sense that anyone who travels for an extended period of time spends a lot of it decompressing. This could take the form of an extended, multi-day drunk, several consecutive days on the beach
Continue readingWhen I first began this blog a little over a year-and-a-half ago, I did so with only vague notions of what I was doing. I remember well the day I set the thing up–it was
Continue readingDecember 3, 2013 started out as just a normal day. That was the problem. I needed something other than normal, and I knew it. Normal wasn’t working anymore. It hadn’t been working for a long,
Continue readingCongratulations! You passed Essential Spanish 101! Well done. Bien hecho. I trust you had fun, laughed a lot, played a lot, made a friend (or two,) and thoroughly enjoyed your evening. Now that the party’s
Continue readingA lot of my friends don’t speak Spanish, so I get a lot of questions, especially when somebody’s on their way to Mexico. How do you tell somebody you have to go to the bathroom? Number One?
Continue readingSometimes, things just take a little while. The Universe stops moving, people freeze in mid-sentence with their mouths open, a cat gets stuck in mid-air tumbling of the neighbor’s roof, and nine months pass between
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