by Eileen | Jan 29, 2014 | memoir
The time has come to come clean. For the last several years, on scraps of paper, and little journals, and USB keys that have traveled hither and yon, where yon is Suriname and Costa Rica (twice), and Nicaragua, Seattle, San Francisco, and Argentina (several times) and...
by Eileen | Dec 31, 2012 | memoir, meta, travel
At the risk of waxing too personal (but not that kind of waxing), I want to tell you about the person you see in this picture. She is terrified. She is uninformed, ill-prepared, and, not speaking the language, practically mute. And in this picture, she is taking a...
by Eileen | Dec 26, 2012 | chile, language, travel
¡Fuera! is what you shout at a dog (if you don’t shout ¡Sale!) when you want him to go outside. Fuera (no exclamation points) is also what we say when it turns out you aren’t, or won’t be where you normally are. BTW, this is about fuera, which is...
