Tropical Daydreams

Amazing how it takes a visitor, with a fresh set of eyes, to restore one’s feeling of excitement about where one lives. This was our experie...

I usually get through reading the Sunday edition of O Globo , Rio’s version of The New York Times, in about an hour. There are lots of secti...

The famous Three Fishermen, by C. Motta Búzios gets a lot of mileage out of the wistful, romantic idea it has of itself as a "littl...

Last week I talked about the English words and expressions that have been seeping into the Portuguese language, and which have been warmly e...

For years now the defenders of the French language, the Académie Française , have fought valiantly against the insidious contamination of Fr...

I bet you’re all wondering, "This is it? Are you really going to write a blog about a two-letter word? Are you that desperate for topic...

The very first time Mark and I heard of the direito de ir e vir (the right to come and go) we were driving home with a friend. We had turne...