Tropical Daydreams

Armação Beach might be the most unusual beach in Búzios for being the only one with a street dividing the water & sand from the mortar...

The Igreja Sant’anna, the very first church built in Búzios, has stood high atop the hill between the beaches of Armação and Ossos for 272 y...

Back in September I wrote about what my husband and I call the "obligatory mention," the way aspects of Brazil — its culture, its...

This is the question that some Brazilians have timorously asked of Mark and me in these last weeks before the U.S. presidential election. Ar...

"Close your eyes and tap your heels together three times, And think to yourself, There's no place like home, There's no place...

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...