by Eileen | Dec 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Before we moved to Chile, my ex and met with a Chilena who runs a summer program at one of the best law schools in Santiago. I forget exactly what our connection was with her, except that when people found out we were going to Chile they crawled out of the woodwork...
by Eileen | Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
On August 22nd, 2004, I was on a group mountain bike ride up at Huinganal, an open hilly plain with bouncy terrain in the eastern sector of Santiago, up through the comuna (district) called La Dehesa. There were about fifteen of us, with a wide range of types of...
by Eileen | Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
When you’re riding from the capital to the coast, a distance of about 75 miles, over the coastal range, and strung out over an entire night, replete with near-accidents, sidelong looks of pity at those whose bikes or quads couldn’t make it up the dreaded...
by Eileen | Dec 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
A clipboard-wielding woman accosted me this morning between Interpol and the luggage pickup in the Santiago airport. “Do you have any peanuts, almonds, food of vegetable origin?” she asked. In English and in Spanish, a little mantra: maní, almendras,...
by Eileen | Nov 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Walking around Manhattan, as I have been for the last couple of days, has been incredible. First of all, it’s kind of my home and not my home. It’s been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember, as a child hunting down (then) elusive recipe...
by Eileen | Nov 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
At the risk of making that Meatloaf song run through your head, I will report that it was long ago and far away when I was cycling through Quebrada Macul in Peñalolén, Santiago (please don’t try this alone) with a bike mechanic friend when I heard a...
