Tropical Daydreams

Back in December of 2014 I said that due to force majeure I was suspending my blog and going to the States for a while, and that I'd se...

Well, I wanted to write about our banana tree, which has us so excited. It's bearing fruit! And then I thought about...

Ask ten Americans what their favorite holiday is and it’s possible that you will come up with ten different answers. Then again, it’s also p...

When I moved to Brazil, along with all the excitement of a new home, a new language, new friends, new routines and a new angle on the world,...

Butterfly is such a pretty word in any language — papillon (fr), borboleta (port), mariposa (sp), schmetterling (ger), sommerfugl (dan), kam...

It never previously crossed my mind to blog about this subject, mostly because the subject is neither important nor compelling. But here it ...