Sometimes, inexplicably, you aren’t doing what you really like to do. No one knows why, but despite enjoying exercise, or seeing certain friends or taking long walks, you’re sitting still, seeing the wrong people (or no one at all) and not walking anywhere. And things are peculiarly off, like using the wrong white balance, which [...]
I have blogged before about people’s views, and in fact have thought of doing a series on nothing more than the views from my friend’s houses. I love seeing the city (any city) from above, and I believe that what you see on a daily basis affects how you feel. When I see [...]
In a somewhat unfortunate turn of events, I learned that you should not store thousands of photos on iPhoto. And I also learned that I’m what I’d like to call an organic user of computers, which means I go any which way and organize things how I think they should go and leave stuff everywhere. [...]
In the slow and sometimes fast shift that is life, the remaining people in my family have moved, or are moving. I say remaining, because we at Smith family central have, at this point, buried more of us than there are still alive. I learned about death very young, and she’s been present in my [...]
I don’t know about you, but I don’t need little ceramic busses cram-packed with figurines and chickens on the roof. And I’ve seen them in Ecuador, in Guatemala, in Bolivia. Certainly I don’t need one that says Arequipa, Peru. I’m also all squared away on weavings, having bought more than my share at earlier points [...]
They didn’t tell me there would be cows in salt ponds. Oh! What I might have missed.
On a recent trip to the coastal (and later, mountain) regions of Región de Maule and BíoBío here in Chile, during which we experienced a kind of dubious signage (photo evidence forthcoming), and an [...]
It has been far too long since I’ve been up to Glaciar El Morado, a longish walk from a wide spot in the road up in Cajón de Maipo. It’s not fair of me to give directions, since I don’t drive and have never navigated there myself, but I’ve been there twice, once at the [...]
Between the excitement of the bagels in Santiago and Viña, and then the excitement of teargassing peaceful protesters of the hydroelectric project in the south of Chile (and the fact that Global Voices and BuzzTracker picked up that blog post), there has been movement afoot. [...]
There are places in the world that scream with color. Where in the middle of a pale blue sky pops a stark white cloud, against a red ridge. Where azure lakes appear over the horizon, turning milky turquoise, and rimmed with yellow and purple lupins.
New Zealand is one of these places. Last southern summer [...]
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