I didn’t have that much on my list of things to do in Colombia besides the usual short vacation things like hike, swim, speak Spanish with locals, read, eat lots of spicy food, buy coffee, buy hot sauce, and jump into a volcano. Trust me, that’s not even close to […]
No, it’s not the name of some Wayuu warrior prince. Or a jungle city in Colombia. I am still laughing over a conversation I had with my mom. I was so happy and excited to bring her back something she actually wanted (Colombian coffee, yay!), that I sent her an […]
I had to catch my flight and didn’t finish captioning, uploading, storytelling. I don’t like blogging on an iPad, it’s too slow. And I can’t upload any of my SLR images, which are soooo much better than ones I take with my phone. Anyway, poor Bobo. Any time he would […]
So that was the shortest food obsession ever. No mas arepas for me. I guess that’s what I get for thinking I have an iron clad stomach, resistant even to teenage mutant ninja parasites. I was in the tiniest town a few days ago and saw this sign and just couldn’t […]
The centro historico of Cartagena is like 4 blocks! Here I am all proud of myself that I know which way to go, which I don’t, and that I understand directions, which I can’t, and when I finally get my hands on a map it looks like this: Anyway, did […]
I made note of what was around my apartment, a square, near the back of the cathedral, the street behind the bishop, and then just started walking. The centro historico of Cartagena is beautiful…colorful and bustling, with flowers everywhere and even though tourism is big here it still feels like a real city.
My father died last week and I’m still not sure how I need to mourn him. Being busy with the business of death has been quite distracting, but that can’t last that much longer, can it? Suddenly I feel like I’m 10 again, or 16, or 35, wishing that our family wasn’t broken, that he was always there, that he was a good father, so that now this loss could be sudden, excruciating, heartbreakingly normal. Fact is, we lost our father 40 years ago and I’ve already been mourning that loss year after year.
So I’m continuing to finish up this blog sequence in NYC, mostly because I started all these posts and didn’t finish them, but also because I just hate leaving something unfinished. Just a few more to go. It’s funny, I took so much French in high school and college and […]
