by Eileen | Jul 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
I have had a ongoing and lifelong obsession with laundry. It was one of my first household tasks, and also one of my first memories of reading an unexpected word was off the side of the little blue jug (that’s Dynamo!) of 70s-era laundry detergent while my mom...
by Eileen | Jul 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
When I first started teaching in the United States (at this incredible adult-education program outside of Washington, DC), I had thirty or forty students from all around the world, and names to match. I had students from Mongolia, from Sudan, from Burundi, Peru,...
by Eileen | Jul 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
You know that old adage about how you shouldn’t go grocery shopping on an empty stomach? Well, add to that you shouldn’t go to the fresh market when you have food in your fridge and little in your belly.Right after a decent/hard workout (Thank you polar...
by Eileen | Jul 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
For reasons that are unclear to me, my very nice gym in the middle of downtown (which has a little ramp outside and lets me bring my bike inside) has piped-in music only in English. I don’t mean to get huffy, I mean my English comprehension is pretty good, and I...
by Eileen | Jul 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Grocery prices here in Chile, like everywhere else, are going up, up, up. I mostly buy food from the fresh market, but the things I routinely buy at my local grocery store (the Santa Isabel on Huerfanos, though there are three within a six block radius, all of them...
by Eileen | Jun 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Since I often travel alone and am seldom sans camera, I have learned to take pictures of myself. I’ve mastered the self-shot with arm extended, have triumphed over precipitious camera-balancings and am even the proud owner of not one, but three tripods. (two...
