Guatemala is still very much on my mind. I go to the burrito place on the corner about twice a week just to hear Spanish. I’ve checked out several Spanish textbooks from the library, including a wonderful one that I happened upon: Breaking Out of Beginner’s Spanish by Joseph J. Keenan (University of Texas Press). It’s insightful, practical and funny. And this is my favorite of the straight-out grammar books: The Ultimate Spanish Review and […]
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Garden-variety musings
Day of Beauty
Around my house today there was a whole lot of grooming going on. Lulu got her hair dyed by Esmeralda. And Esmeralda let me join her in a facial after dinner. I visited my friends A__ and M__ tonight. A__ says she has no objection to my having kept a travel journal, but did I really need to put it online where people have to see it? Can’t I just keep it to myself? A__ […]
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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 […]
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