Archives: mid-afternoon

Lately I have been feeling like I was born to speak Spanish yet ended up in the
wrong country and thus speaking the wrong language. Somehow my heart feels
bigger in Spanish. Luckily I only have to learn a new language to fix the
accident of my birth, unlike someone born the wrong gender who has a much
larger [...]

I am sitting in the central plaza of Antofagasta de La Sierra eating crackers and a tin of something called “Jamon del Diablo” or “Ham of the Devil” in english. It is actually quite good but I had to get over the fact that it looks and smells like Whisker’s Fancy Feast cat food. Antofagasta [...]

Read this while I was up in the Yukon. It is on my mind again tonight.
The Men That Don’t Fit In by Robert Service
There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,
A race that can’t stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field [...]