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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Okay, this is my last night in Spain and I am not looking forward to the next 24 hours. I made a last minute change to my month-in-Spain-plans to visit my friend Max who lives on the French border with Switzerland, and because we all know how useless I am […]
I came home last night to a bunch of comments from my nephew and it inspired me to finish this up. I should have turned comments on sooner, but I just get so much xanax, handbag, penis-enlargement and mail-order bride spam that I just turned them off and posted links […]
I know this looks like an advertisement for an Asian escort, but it’s not. It’s my last night in Athens and I just got back to my hotel after a long day of Athenian hill walking and swimming and archaeology and museuming and I was looking for some Asian food. […]
I really want to finish writing about Spain and France, but just have to post some pics of Greece before I go to sleep. It’s really great to be back on this crazy island after 12 years. Seeing friends, archaeologists and museum guards I haven’t seen for ages is really […]
