Tropical Daydreams

Well, Dilma Rousseff was slightly ahead in the polls against my candidate, Aécio Neves, she kept the lead and won the election. Another four...

A dear friend of ours here in Búzios has two sons who live in New York. Recently, his sons were down here visiting. One of the sons, Raphael...

Coming in on the Marginal Tietê What bumpkins we’ve become! We lived in New York, for heaven’s sake, we’ve been in a Big City before. Bu...

Back in our New York apartment days, Mark and I befriended a Finn who lived right across the hall from us. I had never met anyone from Finla...

Brazil is having a presidential election this Sunday. Unlike the United States, where in some ways it feels as if politicians never stop cam...

I spend a good deal of my time at home gazing at pine trees, real Northern Hemisphere pine trees, something of an oddity here in subtropical...

I don’t like to use this blog to rant, and I believe I have successfully held to that rule (except for anything I write about Driving in Bra...