by Eileen | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Laying in bed in a feverish haze, thank you science, my overreactive immune system (and a 3rd Pfizer shot), I snuggled deeper into a pile of blankets and duvets in the warm Chilean summer temperatures that would normally have me using just a sheet or at most, a single...
by Eileen | Dec 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
And on Day 111, she could smell. No, really smell. Smell that the honey-scented soap that she bought in the hopes of making her nose happy, which heretofore had smelled like lemon and had a certain copperyness to it, which then suddenly smelled like honey. And her...
by Eileen | Jun 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Of all the household tasks, perhaps the most vexing is the putting on of the duvet cover. For those who don’t know, the duvet cover is a giant pillowcase-type-thing that goes on a down (or whatever) quilt. But unlike a pillow, the down duvet has no body to it,...
by Eileen | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
One of the many tasty things I ate that I could not taste. I could feel the lime though. Read on to learn about chemesthesis. A buzzing, churning, roiling, banging, grinding machine has been just outside my door for fifteen months. Inside the house, I hear it less,...
by Eileen | Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Way back in a recess of my mind I am sitting in the backyard on East 19th Street in Brooklyn and it is early summer. My grandmother is sitting in one of those woven beach chairs with the light aluminum frame, like the one she uses when she sits out in front of her...
by Eileen | Feb 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
In talking about the civil unrest, this fríend of a friend asked me what it would take for me to leave Chile. And it’s a good question. For a while I was seeing a gringo exodus, but it was mainly the same people that always leave, end of the contract, short-termers,...
