by Eileen | Mar 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
The contrasts between old and new, practical and superflous, modern and old-fashioned never ceases to amaze me. Maybe that’s why I find in Chile an utterly endless supply of blog (and other writing) fodder. Today’s lesson is about regulation, rules and the...
by Eileen | Mar 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Every year, on the fourth Thursday of November, like many other families in that somewhat misshapen landmass of a country we call the United States, my family gets together for Thanksgiving. For the first three years I was in Chile I dealt with my weather sickness...
by Eileen | Mar 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Everyone in Chile is crazy about the alerce (a-LEHR-say). The alerce is Chile’s redwood, its giant sequoia. A huge hardwood tree that was overharvested almost to extinction. It grows gigantically tall and hugely round and for a thousand years. It fills an...
by Eileen | Mar 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
The other day on paseo Huerfanos, a (mostly) pedestrian walkway that stretches from San Martín (of the water-scooping-from-the-fountain fame) up to Cerro Santa Lucia towards the east, I saw a crowd huddled around something, so I had to go investigate.Huerfanos is the...
by Eileen | Mar 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
The other night I was sitting outside one of my local cafés, one that used to have slices of cake and such for a little over a dollar, but the prices of which have recently gone up to the scandalous price of nearly $1.50 (900 pesos!), enjoying the cool evening breeze...
