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 | 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 | 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...
by Eileen | Feb 1, 2012 | meta, Uncategorized, voice
Point one: I recently wrote something that pissed off a whole bunch of Chileans. Then it was translated, and it pissed off a whole bunch more. If you need to see what it was, go back a blog post. I’m done fanning those flames. But the issue of why I, a foreigner...
by Eileen | Jun 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Getting to TBEX (a prompt given in the Narrative Writing workshop run by Andrew Evans, Don George (both of whom write for National Geographic) and Pam Mandel from Nerdseyeview. The conference and the workshop are explained below.) First there was a bus from downtown...
