by Eileen | Aug 28, 2013 | meta, santiago, travel writing, Uncategorized
I was recently at a travel writer and photographer’s conference in Corte Madera, California, convened by an amazingly well-curated new and used bookstore called Book Passage. If you’re in the area (right over the Golden Gate), I highly recommend a stop in....
by Eileen | Aug 21, 2013 | chile, travel
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 disappear. These are the lines of a song that was going through my head...
by Eileen | Jul 30, 2013 | chile, language
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 like her, but she’s not precisely what...
by Eileen | Jul 24, 2013 | chile, home
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 verb. It was the kind of mellow, wood-paneled place where...
by Eileen | Jul 13, 2013 | meta, photography, travel
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 formation, another preconception of how the world works, which is...
