by Eileen | Feb 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
We were five. Two pint/tablespoon sized and three adults. I arrived early, bugged the hotel staff for a crib on several occasions, drank nearly a liter of water, figured out the cards in the slots for electricity, walked through the Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood-like...
by Eileen | Feb 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
A bevy of interesting things must have happened in 1981, but I remember only one. It was the year in which one member of the Smith family extravaganza that was science experiments and freakish foods and trips to Chinatown and long bikerides and hanging on the fence...
by Eileen | Jan 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
I eat a lot of sandwiches in Chile. It’s not because I have a great love for sandwiches, or even bread really, it’s just that since I don’t eat meat, and in many places pizza is an abomination before Italy, well, that sandwich, “es lo que...
by Eileen | Jan 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I was out with some friends and we were talking about the power of music in movies. I couldn’t tell you what we were listening to, but we all agreed it’d make a great chase scene or fleeing-fro-your-demons music.And then we came upon the topic of...
by Eileen | Jan 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
“Fire!” shouted a man sitting in a doorway about half a block off of Plaza Brasil. “Fire!” My friend and I looked at him quizically, wondering if it was possible to somehow be invisibly aflame. We also looked around for signs of smoke, firemen,...
by Eileen | Jan 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
This question was posed to me by some gringas that I’d met in Iquique, a city in the north of Chile known for its curvy beach lined with palm trees, swimmable water, its historical importance in salt mining, the ZoFri (duty free mall) and (by me), a plentiful...
