by Eileen | Dec 31, 2016 | chile, meta, nostalgia, santiago
“Tan solo eso?” (Just that?) This was what the man said to me while I was buying a bunch of grapes the other day at Tirso de Molina, the small two-story market before the real chaos of La Vega begins. In this case, I was coming from the north to the south,...
by Eileen | Nov 16, 2014 | chile, language, meta, spanish
Do you think in English or Spanish? This is a question I am frequently asked. To be honest, I don’t know how to answer. If I’m having a conversation in Spanish, it stands to reason that I must be thinking in Spanish. If I weren’t, then I would be...
by Eileen | Feb 11, 2014 | meta, Uncategorized
I am so happy for you that you are traveling the world and blogging/instagramming/tweeting it. That every day you wake up and see something new, something photogenic. And that you take pictures of it, and describe it with your pretty words, both of which bring one...
by Eileen | Sep 28, 2013 | chile, language, meta
In my last post, I posted an audioclip of a man pretending to speak English. Several people I know, and even some I don’t told me how much they enjoyed it. So far, it’s going strong at 269 listens, which is a lot of people listening to someone speaking...
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 | 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...
