by Eileen | Jul 13, 2013 | meta, photography, travel
One of the things I like about traveling, is that it unfolds my origami perceptions of how the world works, and reveals nooks I didn’t know where there, later refolding my mind into a totally new formation, another preconception of how the world works, which is...
by Eileen | Jun 18, 2013 | meta, travel writing
Sometimes you’re talking to someone much younger than you or who has had different life experience, and you’ve got this boiling need, this firewire torrent of stuff you wish they knew, but that you can’t tell them, because their brain doesn’t...
by Eileen | Apr 7, 2013 | chile, feria, meta, santiago
A different kind of feria report “Here you go, gorgeous!” This is what my casero (the man I buy veggies from at the Saturday and Sunday market) says to me. He then turns to the 70-something woman beside me and says, “That will be two dollars,...
by Eileen | Feb 12, 2013 | memoir, meta, travel
What you think at 20 isn’t the same as what you think at 40, or at 60. This is what one of the many seniors or near-seniors said to me as we were leaving the hotel in Panama City, after spending five days together on an all-canal-all-the-time tour. And...
by Eileen | Jan 5, 2013 | meta, travel
Finally figured out the photo thing. WordPress app. Who knew? So I wrote what, until now, has been my most-widely read blog piece. I know it’s in fashion to say you are humbled by something, and filled with gratitude. I’m glad that the internet exists,...
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...
