Do what you like When I told my parents I wanted a job where I could do what I like, as a young college graduate with a sociology degree (!), you'd have thought I said I wanted to juggle babies for a living. But they came around, about the time I found a job I liked....
“‘A writer is always in exile,’ she said, this is what pushes him or her to write. ‘It doesn’t have to be geographical.’” From Journalist Olivia Snaije’s interview with three Syrian and Iraqi women writers living in exile: Samar Yazbek, Inaam Kachachi, and Rosa Yassin...
How lovely to hear Chopin in the park, at the touch of a button! The benches have really good acoustics - you can click on the pic to hear a piece from a good videographer called Happy Data Scientist (I'm not kidding) on YouTube. This is the Chopin memorial in the...
You may not have heard of a ThanksWedding. Leave it to my family to come up with a new holiday - Thanksgiving + Wedding, obviously. But who does that? ONLY US, that's who. Because nothing goes better than overeating and dressing up. In Alaska. Striking. Brisk....
I'm a little afraid of how this week is stacking up. Plenty of work, as there is no rest for the wicked. But also time with friends and packing and being sure to pile in all my favorite Bogota things. It sounds like mayhem, while I am looking for calm. Is he waving at...
The crowd from CNC, our work partners here in Bogota, showed up right on time - not a common thing in Bogota, where "Colombia time" is a recognized if unregulated time zone. I think the reason they were on time was to bring in the band: 2016-08-26 22.00.15 My friends...
Too late tonight to write much. We had a party with a band and such a great time... 2016-08-27 00.09.00
These are my friends on the way to work. They're usually asleep. There's about six more, and they all hang out around the food carts. I can't imagine why, the frying oil smells like their butts. Oh, wait, that's why... A short post tonight, but an important one to me,...
Does that sound salacious? Well they are some enormous honking carrots: How about a foodie tour of Bogota to celebrate my new author website? This is from February, when Ali and Shane came for a great visit. Though I knew these tours existed, and I'm not immune to the...
Bogota has its share of problems. It's a big, noisy, gritty city with more inhabitants than it can reasonably handle. Unlike back home, demand for public transportation is enviably high: bus it and they will come. Supply is another story. Foto: Carlos Julio MartÃnez...