We Appreciate your Predicament, Mr. Bond
…Click over to read the originally published piece in Spanish in the HOY or read the English translation below. This was also picked up in SUR in English. (PDF en…
The Foreign Menace: Now Available in the Hotel Lobby
…a surreal carnival of nationalism, folklore, fear, and hairspray. What followed was less bureaucracy and more Raul Duke in Cáceres. Read the piece in my Camino a Ítaca in the…
Interviews in the Spanish Press about the new Book
Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain This weekend the regional and local press both published interviews with me (in Spanish) about my new book, Stories…
España Profunda (with a bit of Portugal thrown in)
The good people over at Trazzler have given me even more reason to practice what I preach and travel deeper rather than further. I’ve been assigned a 10 piece series,…
Aculturalized : Definition
…piece melt the moment it hits your tongue. The only way to accompany it is with a strong local red that can actually do battle with the intense flavors. Perfect…
Post Academy Life: 5 ways to move beyond teaching at Language Academies in Spain
…the plain. A place I have called home off and on for more than 15 years, Spain… And thus starts my piece in EFL Magazine. Click over for a look….
Blowback
…the piece: you can put a wall on a river. You can put a fence across a desert. You cannot tariff the sky. Read “Blowback” at CounterPunch. Read Blowback at…
Along the Gambia River: Markets, Crossings and Chimpanzees
…kept its own counsel. The story was happening along its banks. Along the Gambia River: Markets, Crossings and Chimpanzees, in Go World Travel Magazine. Read the full piece here: https://www.goworldtravel.com/gambia-river-journey/…
‘Tis the Season to…Deport
…edited until it no longer disturbs the powerful — and no longer consoles the uncomfortable. In other words, this is not a piece about “misreading.” It’s about custom reading. About…
Back to Where, Exactly?
…anything but guaranteed. My latest piece takes the rhetoric of the “good old days” literally and asks what, precisely, we are being invited to recover — and who might not…