by Eileen | Jan 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
As I watched the beleaguered SeaTac airport try to open and then close again, all day long, first watching my 11:55 AM flight get cancelled, and then watching my 8:45 PM flight do the same, I realized that the short Smith family reunion was getting shorter and...
by Eileen | Jan 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
In a stealth move that I told precious few people about, I am on the other side of the world now. I think the people on three flights I was on had an inkling that I was on the move, as did everyone on line at the three separate security lines I suffered through where...
by Eileen | Jan 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
I believe myself to have some of the best-traveled recycling in the city. This is hubris, you might say. Why just the other day you went around the block to find a place to lovingly deposit your empty plastic bottle, and that is some darn good traveling. It may be, my...
by Eileen | Jan 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
I take it from what I see on the internet that I am expected to do an accounting of 2011, lauding it or maligning it. 2011 deserves neither from me, it was a year, like many others (but not this one!) with 365 days in it. There were some very good moments, and some...
by Eileen | Dec 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Now that the photos have been rescued, the latkes have been cooked and consumed, Christmas pavlova has been ingested and copious amounts of iced drinks sit ready and waiting for me to guzzle, I can finally take a minute and talk about Suriname. I arrived to Paramaribo...
by Eileen | Dec 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
The other day was the finals in the Copa Sudamerica, I believe. There’s a system of points which has nothing to do with goals, but has to do whether the team won, lost or tied, and whether they were home and away. Chile had three points against Ecuador which...
