Tropical Daydreams

Latex lurks, waiting to strike . . . My inability to eat, enjoy, savor, relish and otherwise delight in the myriad exotic fruits of Bra...

"I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process . . . it may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?"  Author...

There's nothing like going to a partisan event with a partisan crowd. Mark and I were in London in 1998 at the time of the final World ...

Once upon a time, Mark and I were frequent travelers, but for the past six months we have rarely ventured farther than the closest superma...

Just one button short of news anchor decorum There are a lot of blogposts I can't write. I am completely stymied by a deeply ingrai...

When you jump into a new language at a fairly late age, you take the grammar, the vocabulary and the expressions as they come, and tread wat...

No question but that nowadays Mark and I are very alert to any mention of Brazil in movies, books or magazines, or in any other medium, sin...