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 | Aug 28, 2014 | memoir, travel writing, Uncategorized
What jogs memories free? Like money in the pocket of a jacket you’ve checked a hundred times for change, and found nothing, until one day, there it is, small, yet important. Today I misplaced a pen I’d been using, and reached into my bag to get another,...
by Eileen | Nov 25, 2013 | santiago, Uncategorized
Before you send out that mass email, I urge you to stop. So every now and then, dear reader, you come across one blog, or a group of them, and you write the blogger an email. I love your blog, you say! Now I have a question, you say. This is nice. It puffs up the old...
by Eileen | Sep 4, 2013 | meta, travel, travel writing, Uncategorized
Long ago, when I started this blog as a place for me to get published when no one would give me the time of day, I got kind of lumped in with a whole bunch of “travel blogs,” journals of people who were on the road. And by lumped in, I mean linked to and...
