Deja vu? Or something like that, only way different.
December 31, 2012. A year ago, I was saying goodbye to some of my oldest friends in Washington, DC just a few days before I would leave for a year […]
Tag Archives: 2012
Colombia: The Risk is Choosing the Slowest Line at the Grocery Store and other stories
Fifteen hypothetical chapters (blog posts?) that would star in a work of non-fiction about my (ahem, first) year in Colombia. What Were My High School Teachers Doing On Weekends? I’m […]
An Open Letter to My Students
My school year is rapidly coming to a close – simultaneously speeding and dragging towards November 16th. I’m trying to conclude chapters and concepts while the kids have thrown all […]
September.
To those of us with internal calendars based on the four seasons and their transitions, seeing valentines in September is odd. Thankfully, there’s logic behind it. As usual, Colombia takes […]
Chapter 2: The Wolfpack Explores a Cloud Forest
Mindo is a tiny town a few hours northwest of the capital. The geography is extraordinarily different from that a few hours northeast where the highway wraps around Ibarra’s dry, […]
Chapter 1: The Wolfpack Goes Shopping
We arrived in Quito on Saturday night, and even though a cute, geographically-challenged little boy stole my window seat on the flight, I was ecstatic the second I saw Quito’s […]
Going Back.
My upcoming vacation is going to mark a full sort of circle for me: the returns. I’ve had the utmost luck and fortune the past five years in that I’ve […]
Villa de Leyva
A few weeks ago I went to Villa de Leyva and some surrounding towns with my host family and two friends, then headed back for a long weekend of hiking, […]
a Journey in and of Itself
it’s scary, going places. not because we leave behind everything we know and have known, but because we run a huge risk: that of knowing, loving and absorbing a new […]
Summit of the Americas: Hugs and Drugs
The media’s favorite SOA topic is the great drug debate. While the drug trade and its ensuing violence is undoubtedly a huge issue in the region, it makes great fodder […]
