by Eileen | Aug 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Imagine for a minute if you will your metro station. Or your bus stop. Or your bike route. Where you leave your house, in your neighborhood, which you picked carefully because you liked it, felt good there, wanted to raise your puppies and plants in a place just like...
by Eileen | Aug 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
I know three firemen here in Chile, a volunteer position that is terribly undervalued. Many of the firemen spend most nights at the firehouse, and there are continuous campaigns to donate money to keep the firehouses afloat. One of the firemen that I know had a...
by Eileen | Jun 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
I saw a kid tenderly wipe lemon juice across another kid’s eyelashes today. That’s crazy, all of it. Kids (teenage boys) being tender to each other, that’s just Chile (when they’re not beating the crap out of each other or hurling homophobic...
by Eileen | May 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...