by Eileen | Aug 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you’re a coincidence non-believer, you may have to adjust your brain for the time it takes you to read this blog entry. Either that or I expect a two page, single-spaced report on just what in tarnation you think is going on here. I first noticed it in 1986,...
by Eileen | Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Architecture disrespect is a term I coined one day when I uploaded this photo to my flickr stream. It’s a picada, or sort of a snackbar at the corner of the Alameda (that’s Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins to you) and calle dieciocho (thus the...
by Eileen | Aug 7, 2010 | feria, Uncategorized
Something that I love down to my crunchy granola toes about living in Latin America, or more specifically, Santiago is the ferias. Ferias are our weekend (or weekday) fruit and veggie stop, a place to yammer with your neighbors and thump the melons (but not too...
by Eileen | Jul 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
This is not about Chile and it’s not really about New York, and maybe you will forgive me or maybe you will aggressively click elsewhere because you prefer to gaze at your own navel than watch me pontificate on my own.I recently made a trip to the states and one...
by Eileen | Jul 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
They say that a sudden cold snap gives the very best foliage leaf-peepers could ever hope for. Looking at pretty, color-changing leaves is written into my history, as crispy shufflewalking to school as a child reminded me of crunching through the first layers of...
by Eileen | Jul 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
If there’s one thing that Latin America does better than the United States, it’s the papeleo. This word comes from papel, meaning paper, and has to do with anything that involves pushing papers this way and that, whether it’s under a window or...
