Tropical Daydreams

"Maybe it’s much too early in the game, Ah, but I thought I’d ask you just the same, What are you doing New Year’s, New Year’s Eve?...

My husband, Mark, used to own the LP pictured here, Cantos de Aves do Brasil (Brazilian Bird Calls), back in the days when people used to ...

Long after I had left the proverbial nest, my parents started a vegetable garden in the backyard. They grew great big Jersey beefsteak tomat...

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...