by Eileen | Apr 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
A while ago (maybe a year or so), a friend of mine and I were talking about how much she hates going to the grocery store. Part of this is just the way she’s wired, part of it is that she goes seldom, and by car, thereby having to fight traffic, parking and...
by Eileen | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
My mother says that when I was a child she used to have to go through my pockets before doing the laundry to find the rocks I’d secreted there and forgotten about. It doesn’t surprise me, kids do all kinds of silly things and on our recent family vacation...
by Eileen | Mar 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
The contrasts between old and new, practical and superflous, modern and old-fashioned never ceases to amaze me. Maybe that’s why I find in Chile an utterly endless supply of blog (and other writing) fodder. Today’s lesson is about regulation, rules and the...
by Eileen | Mar 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Every year, on the fourth Thursday of November, like many other families in that somewhat misshapen landmass of a country we call the United States, my family gets together for Thanksgiving. For the first three years I was in Chile I dealt with my weather sickness...
by Eileen | Mar 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Everyone in Chile is crazy about the alerce (a-LEHR-say). The alerce is Chile’s redwood, its giant sequoia. A huge hardwood tree that was overharvested almost to extinction. It grows gigantically tall and hugely round and for a thousand years. It fills an...
by Eileen | Mar 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
The other day on paseo Huerfanos, a (mostly) pedestrian walkway that stretches from San Martín (of the water-scooping-from-the-fountain fame) up to Cerro Santa Lucia towards the east, I saw a crowd huddled around something, so I had to go investigate.Huerfanos is the...
