Beloved Barcelona:
One Thousand Small Pleasures

The way he leaned in to kiss her, forceful yet playful, determined, and not bound by protocol, quickly but with a sense of classic restraint summed up within a flash of a minute the heartbeat of Barcelona. The couple playfully sat in the sand of Playa de la Barceloneta, one of nine city beaches that […]

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Remembering Guadalajara:
A former foreign student returns
to walk around Mexico’s second city

The Broken Sidewalks Memories come flooding back the minute my feet begin moving along the broken sidewalks of Guadalajara, Mexico.  Even in the city’s more exclusive colonias (neighborhoods), the concrete splits and crumbles, protruding up from the earth like tiny mountainous obstacles. The uneven walkway is as disruptive as the city itself.  Brilliantly lit up […]

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