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When you are in nature, or in San Francisco 21 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
payday loans Cuando estás en la naturaleza, un bicho puede picarte, un león puede comerte, y hacerte desaparecer When you’re out in nature, a bug could bite you, a lion could eat you and make you...
On ducks and bugs, and other animal-based expressions. With love, from Chile. 30 Jul 2013 | 10:20 pm
I was recently describing someone I know to a friend of mine, and used the expression “she’s an odd duck,” an English expression that is kind of playful, like, she’s peculiar, but not a bad person. I ...
On the meditation of hanging your laundry out to dry. A lesson from Chile 24 Jul 2013 | 10:30 pm
Once upon a time, when I used to live and move around the United States, I spent a weekend at a retreat center on the Oregon Coast. Here I ate vegan food and learned about the word “gift” used as a ve...
Nice is relative, a lesson from Paraguay 13 Jul 2013 | 09:12 pm
One of the things I like about traveling, is that it unfolds my origami perceptions of how the world works, and reveals nooks I didn’t know where there, later refolding my mind into a totally new form...
The truth about passports, Paraguay and that pesky new $160 ninety day visa, oh and border crossings in general 8 Jul 2013 | 08:12 pm
In my continued quest to get to know my neighbors, I decided to visit Paraguay. It helped that a friend of mine was going to study Guaraní for a month, and so, as doesn’t often happen, I was going to ...
When we is singular, and may or may not include you. A tale of Chilean (and other) Spanish. 4 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Nosotros. You learn it early on in Spanish class, the first person plural, what happens when you add someone to your self. I plus you is we. Right? Not so fast. As you may or may not know, I just go...
The anatomy of a traditional Chilean pastry shop window 27 Jun 2013 | 05:28 am
Bakery in Santiago, near Catedrál and Bandera, downtown If you spend any time at all in Santiago, chances are that you will spend some time downtown. I think of this as the more “traditional” part of...
What I wish someone had said to me about writing, though I might not have listened 19 Jun 2013 | 12:59 am
Sometimes you’re talking to someone much younger than you or who has had different life experience, and you’ve got this boiling need, this firewire torrent of stuff you wish they knew, but that you ca...
Que Penca, or what’s in that bag at the feria in Chile? 10 Jun 2013 | 09:30 pm
Sometimes you will be walking around in the feria, and you will see bags of pale green something in a bag. it will be double-knotted on top, and flattened into a squared-off brick inside it’s bag, as ...
Torti-what?, language, health and photos, now with iPhone photo app talk 1 Jun 2013 | 10:27 pm
I’m endlessly fascinated by language, especially as spoken by Chileans. I haven’t taken nine years (oh hell, when did that happen?) to think about another language like I have Spanish, and I find cert...
