Tropical Daydreams

Niemeyer's lasting mark on Niterói Back in the days when we still lived in New York and my husband, Mark, used to write from time to...

Occasionally — very occasionally — I toy with the idea of returning to the United States, and wonder how easy or hard that might be. Would I...

Jardim Esperança—not too bad, just not pretty The first time Mark and I drove across the bridge into downtown Cabo Frio, the municipali...

Curtis Sliwa and his beefy Guardian Angels began patrolling the New York City subways in the late ’70s, at a time when I was one of the many...

When there’s nothing to do and our friends are out of town; when there’s nothing good on television and the movie theater is closed . . . we...

It’s hard to get beyond stereotypes, isn’t it? Even if you were brought up to respect other people, and not to make assumptions based on rac...

What astonishes most visitors to Búzios is that it is actually a walled city. Not a Medieval walled city like Carcassonne in France or Ávila...