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Travelling from Lima in Peru to Guayaquil in Ecuador on a 30-hour bus ride without so much of a 10-minute pit stop to remind our legs what the solid ground feels like. The “solid” ground wasn’t so solid for a few days after our eventual arrival. Senor Soul and Senor Romantico, our new Ecuadorian friends, kept us entertained.
Every year I seem to have less and less time for blogging. This year has the record for the least number of entries, but for a very good reason: motherhood! Oh. My. Gosh. What a new appreciation I have for all the mothers of the world. Maternity leave is not a holiday by any stretch of the imagination. There is […]
My partner and I recently spent a week in Cuba in June, mostly in the apocalyptic-like old city of Havana. My research supervisor asked if we speak at a “soiree” at his house, and in preparation I gathered some of my thoughts here. While I reveled in the history and politics, my partner is an […]
My partner, a sculptural artist, and I, with my love of writing, have been thinking about ways we might create some sort of retreat from the city. As I read Alan Watts’ biographies I have been curiously uncovering his two most unusual abodes: a communal mountain retreat with Gary Snyder, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elsa Gidlow and others […]
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