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July 10, 2007 06:21 PM EDT --
Read Parts I, II and III here.
Sucking on my cigarrette, I pass through the Plaza de Estudiantes, where teenagers congregate to hang out and brave the cold. Just "hanging out" is a popular . . .
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June 26, 2007 07:09 PM EDT --
(Read Parts I and II here)
My chico (boyfriend) doesn't call that night or the next. I am ready to give up on him altogether, but then on Friday, I answer the phone as I'm headed out the door . . .
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June 12, 2007 06:24 PM EDT --
(Read Part I here)
I drink my café con leche and smoke another cigarette. I look out my window at Rio Churuquasqua, which is not a river at all, but a rushing torrent of brown sewage contained . . .
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May 28, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
Now that it is winter, I can't seem to get warm. When indoors, I am always shivering, and I've taken to spending my early evenings in bed under layers of blankets. I stare out the window and smoke . . .
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May 14, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
I spent last Thanksgiving in the Cincinnati ghetto. At least, that's how my boyfriend Rory described his father's neighborhood--where, he warned, I would be the only white person within a one- . . .
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May 01, 2007 11:23 PM EDT --
I spent last Thanksgiving in the Cincinnati ghetto. At least, that's how my boyfriend Rory described his father's neighborhood--where, he warned, I would be the only white person within a one- . . .
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April 17, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
When I was 18, I discovered that contrary to what my teachers had always led me to believe, I really sucked at speaking Spanish. It had always been my strongest subject: I passed two Spanish AP tests . . .
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April 03, 2007 10:42 AM EDT --
When I was 14, I went to Kenya--kind of. By "kind of," I mean I was physically present in the country for two weeks. But please don't ask me what I learned. The Kenya that I saw looked like . . .
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March 19, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
Try traveling to a country where there are virtually no tourists, no tourist attractions and very little alcohol. You may come to realize that traveling, in and of itself, is slightly absurd. Essentially, . . .
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March 06, 2007 09:44 PM EST --
It's often been said that the best way to learn a foreign language is to date a native speaker. I wholeheartedly agree, but I would take it one step further: the best way to learn a foreign language . . .
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February 19, 2007 09:12 PM EST --
Not all people know how they will react when faced with imminent death. Some might respond with heroic courage. Others, with Zen-like tranquility. I burst out crying.
To my credit, I wasn't the . . .
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February 05, 2007 12:52 PM EST --
The week after I graduated from kindergarten, my parents packed me and my on a 24-hour plane ride to Bali, Indonesia. We were to spend the next three months there while my aging-hippie father took lessons . . .
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January 16, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
This is No Ordinary Parade
Bolivia's Carnaval
All my sources had told me two things about La Paz, Bolivia: 1) its people were warm and friendly toward foreigners, and 2) its geography was such . . .
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November 15, 2006 10:49 AM EST --
I'm pleased to announce that my short memoir piece "Up North," which I had previously posted on Gather, is now available as an Amazon Short.
If you didn't get a chance to read it, here's . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:58 AM EST --
A follow-up to Why Everyone Should Write
Now that I have one published novel under my belt, it feels funny to call myself a "writer." I suppose I have always considered myself one, just as I . . .
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October 29, 2006 02:58 PM EST --
Last year, I didn't spend my holidays by a fireplace, but rather on a beach under a blazing sun. On December 25th, I was sipping margaritas in a city I once swore to myself I would never visit: Cancun, . . .
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October 22, 2006 04:25 PM EDT --
What is it that I, as a traveler, want? Plush-carpeted hotel rooms, palm-tree shaded swimming pools, Parisian-style sidewalk cafes? No thank you. Even if I had the money, I know such tireless luxury would . . .
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September 22, 2006 06:27 PM EDT --
In first grade, I announced to my parents that I either wanted to be a writer or "one of those people who pushes the cash register buttons at the grocery store." Alas, the magic of pushing buttons . . .
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September 14, 2006 05:50 PM EDT --
WHEN DAVE AND I met, he was a puffy, funny-looking guy with a flaming red Afro and an out-of-control drinking habit. It was fitting, I suppose, that we met at a party where we were both deliriously drunk. . . .
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September 01, 2006 10:20 AM EDT --
In trying to figure out creative ways to promote my recently released novel, I came up with this top 10 list. I find that people always respond well to both humor and humility, so that's what I was . . .
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