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When I lived in Brazil, I had a varied group of friends, one of whom was Seu Leonildo, the elderly gentleman who manned the back entrance to...

In Brazil, the rules surrounding a lot of things are different: relationships, notions of time, how to get things done, respectable topics o...

When I left Brazil a year and a half ago, everyone wanted to know when I would be back to visit. Not knowing exactly when I would get a chan...

When I came home from Brazil a year and a half ago, I promised myself that my blog would not become one of those my life was so much better ...

Well, after years of trying to hold on to my youth, it's possible that today was the day that I officially became an adult: I spent the ...

Ever had nostalgia triggered by something that was never actually a part of your life? Case in point: I'm in the middle of rural Mozambi...

Last week, I wrote an email to a couple of colleagues informing them that I was just completing a document that I had been writing, but that...

A Guide for Small Children 1. Get stripped down to your skivvies. 2. Get a partially pealed child-sized mango from your mom. 3. Use your chu...

Yup, I'm feeling like I'm in Africa these days! These huts are the mainstay of rural Mozambique. A sight I loved was while driving t...

Thirty-six hours after leaving home on Friday, I arrived in Maputo, Mozambique and was welcomed with a nosebleed! Yes, while waiting for my ...

No, I'm not getting married! I'm planning a reading list that will hopefully carry me through 40+ hours of flying, not including air...

Take that Google! Turns out that Google doesn't know everything after all! The day after Google pinpointed the fact that summer had tu...

Thing No. 68 Okay, so it's happened to all of us. You move into a new place and you slowly (or quickly!) end up discovering a lot of thi...

Growing up, we ate all of our meals around the kitchen table. We had a big eat-in kitchen with a round melamine table which had four matchin...

Yup, that's me! :-(