Making good on my promise to my van driver, Cesí¡r, in Guatemala, I wrote my first-ever letter all in Spanish. It may be only a few sentences long but it required two rounds of review with Lulu first. I estimate that about ten percent of it was grammatically incorrect. It should be perfect now. If it’s not, it’s all Lulu’s fault. She told me I shouldn’t put that self-deprecating remark in there, but I wouldn’t […]
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The Mechanical Contrivium
Here’s important information that Lulu found out about me, generated by the The Surrealist Web site in the UK: Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in Ginna Allison. Oranges, lemons, watermelons, pineapples and Ginna Allison are all berries! Baskin-Robbins once made Ginna Allison flavoured ice cream. Ginna Allison became extinct in England in 1486. In Vermont, the ratio of cows to Ginna Allison is 10 to 1. It is bad luck to walk under […]
Read moreL’í‰tranger
It’s odd to come home and find my little old life just sitting here waiting, twiddling its thumbs and rolling its eyes at me. I don’t feel like we know each other very well any more. Also disorienting not to have the daily structure of watching for something interesting to write about. I have to remember to keep looking. After all those hours I put into my travel diary I couldn’t bear to see it […]
Read moreBlue Lobster
My sister’s lobster died. She’s keeping it in the freezer till the ground thaws and she can give it a proper burial.
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