Subtle Satori IATEFL TDSIG
…no change, I’m sure the image I hold might not match reality. I was asked to write a piece about my development as a teacher and as Director of Studies…
Sidewalk detours…
…often take place here on the streets of Extremadura. Click over to read the original published piece in Spanish in el HOY or read the English translation below. (PDF abajo)…
Monumental Rock, Monsanto, Portugal
…where naughty gods once used huge granite boulders as their croquet pieces, and left them scattered, forgetting to clean up after themselves. Over the centuries croquet balls morphed into houses,…
The Return of Respectable Bigotry
This morning’s piece came from a feeling I couldn’t quite shake: a strange, low-grade nostalgia, not for some golden age, but for a time when certain ideas, however persistent, at…
¿Qué Calor?
It’s getting warm along the Camino a Ítaca. Successive heatwaves have already struck here in Spain and it’s not even July yet. Click over to read the originally published piece…
Do We Want to be the Same?
…place when a Times travel writer published an article that happened to make a passing comment about how more than a few Spanish parents dressed their children in clothes that…
Empty Promises, Empty Shelves
…abyss of a #me-me, all for me world. Click over to the original piece published in el HOY or read the English version below. (PDF en castellano abajo) The recent…
Jailing Songbirds
…the originally published piece here in Spanish or the English below. (version en castellano en PDF tambien abajo) Rap just never did it for me. The ethereal sound of Johnny…
Battuta’s Least Known Journey
…most. And within this obscurity lies his least known sojourn, his jihad to the Iberian peninsula in today’s Spain. Follow his footsteps in a piece published in Dubai’s Khaleej Times….
Laugh to Keep from Crying
…many reasons. Click over to read the originally published version in Spanish or the piece’s beginnings in English below. I first heard it echo around the plaza del Socorro. It…