As the holidays are approaching in Madrid, it’s been getting terribly cold… and as I look outside my window now, there’s snow! It’s the time of beautiful Christmas lights along all the major avenues, roastedcastañas, or chestnuts, ice skating, winter fairs, Cortylandia, and… practicing the “Must Be Santa” song with the first graders about 16Continue reading “Navidad en Madrid!”
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Paper-lantern pattern of white sky, cut by the one bare tree between the evergreens. A ball is thrown back and forth between two small boys. Mothers push swaddled strollers down the path, past the picnic tables. The gait of a lone woman walking; the dart of anxious finches — This is how the heart behaves: The child chasing a whiteContinue reading “Untitled”
Bacalao, Pasteles de Nata, and …more Good Food
John and I arrive early in dreary Lisbon this past puente and of course make a bee-line for the first coffee shop we find. The streets are quiet, but the pastry shops are already open and serving their signature baked goods to the morning crowd. After our routine 2-hour coffee, we suddenly realize that his jacket isContinue reading “Bacalao, Pasteles de Nata, and …more Good Food”
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