by Eileen | Apr 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Quick quiz:Does the above expression refer toa) a person who paints monkeysb) a person who paints sloppily and with both hands and feetc) a person who insists on being the center of attentiond) a person who likes to paint, and uses monkeys as the subjectC, my friends,...
by Eileen | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
I could never tire of biking down roads like this one. Tire physically, sure, but tire mentally of having the world so open, so expansive, so cloudy and bluesky and mountains in the distance and fresh air and the hum of the occasional vehicle? Never.I don’t...
by Eileen | Apr 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
To travel in New Zealand for any period of time is to get a lecture on possums and rabbits. Possums and rabbits, I tell you. They are the scourge of the country’s native wildlife, and no kiwi conversation is complete without a serious talking-to on the ills of...
by Eileen | Apr 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
I am not sure what the people at the airport in Lima believe travelers might have secreted on their person (or in their carry on luggage) between the first time they were xrayed and metal-detected and arriving in the airport for their international connecting flight,...
by Eileen | Mar 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last night a friend of mine and I decided to go out for a dinnertime whatsis. I say whatsis because she and I have a long history of never being hungry at the same time, and one often sits and has a snack while the other one eats dinner. And so was last night. And by...
