The first thing I needed was luck; plenty of it and all at the right moment. Like a deck of cards, one card falls and the whole edifice...

I was supposed to come back March 14. I didn’t. I couldn’t. While I was out so much has happened in your world and mine that it is hard...

Goes a long way, especially now. On my last home-to-home trip (that is from Lima to Patagonia) navigating the new...

in more ways than one. I am not only referring to the two choices than spring to mind: the defeat of the Republican Party, and the...

We are only two weeks into 2021 and already I am missing 2020. There are two words that I fervently wish never to hear again: Covid and...

And there I thought we were having a slow week leaving me with “what will I write about?” Then vlam!! The House –literally- fell on us....

Youth is vastly overrated. I know it. I was young once and believe me it is a confusing and miserable time. They say youth is wasted on...

Charles Dickens writing in 1859 about the cities of London and Paris engulfed in turmoil and death could not have known how true his...

In order to up and leave my remote Patagonian village you need a great excuse and lots of patience. Travelling home to my native Lima, I...

Here’s the thing. By Act V the old King is ranting and raving incoherently. It all starts at the beginning of Shakespeare’s play when...

At the start of the pandemic the question most frequently asked was “what will happen when things go back to normal”? Will it be the...

I find the premise hard to accept, but to watch Argentina mourn the premature death of Diego Maradona it is the belief of a large part of...

A recurring question posed by children is, “If I start digging a hole in the garden, where does it go?” The usual grownup answer is,...

For over a week the world, tired, dispirited, horrendously worried about the pandemic, has had to deal with one more thing: the both sad...

By Tuesday I usually know what I am going to be posting on my blog Sunday. Come Wednesday I start writing, halfheartedly; I know I’ve got...

Once more we are told to believe, to put our faith in the people running for office. Slinging mud right and left, the worse you can say...

I have just returned from Europe where more people believe in the Great Pumpkin than in the ability of their government to curb the...

My generation had no voice. I am speaking about the women in my generation. Born in a country with rampant racial injustice and where a...

Popular lore has it that when Napoleon was deciding to appoint a new general he never asked whether the man had courage or good strategic...

I throw the question at my husband’s two bright, beautiful, English granddaughters, “Who was the first female millionaire?” The...