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The Pastel de Nata: a bitter-sweet existence.
There is no other food I can remember as long as I can remember the pastel de nata. All I needed was a spoon and a pastel and I was a kid with a dream realized. More than 30 years later, carefully...
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What I get asked the most.
“What do you miss most?” is what I usually get asked when I’m back from a trip like this. A trip where I just put myself out there, to the world, to absorb whatever is spilling out that day. That’s...
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Final purges: Lisbon.
Some lingering jet lag is kicking my butt a bit today, but other than that, I’m feeling really good about my time in Portugal. Please forgive the incessant photos of Lisbon. They’ve blown up all over...
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Lisbon graffiti.
I Lomo’d the hell out of these, plus I’ve posted at least two of them before, but I wanted to share this particular group of graffiti shots together, so I figured it would be ok. When I look at these...
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Updated: how to work at a magazine.
(photo: me at the Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana; admiring Hemingway’s typewriter and a few of his notes). A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about my personal experience of getting (landing?...
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Space to breathe.
There was a moment last year when I realized maybe I was suffocating myself a bit. I feel like I can write about it now because I’ve been using this new information as a way to deal, to cope, with...
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Bacon and coffee.
I’m eating bacon and drinking coffee. I do these two things on Saturday and Sunday more than any other day of the week. It’s probably not healthy when I think about it, the shear amount of coffee and...
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“Becoming the Writer”
Writing isn’t something that you do It is something you become. You let in experiences Good and bad. You let the softest parts of yourself Be bruised and healed. You insert yourself into other worlds...
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“The Perfect Moment”
And we’ll dance around to music, kicking our knees up high, because we’re so happy and things are so right and we have finally found it: perfection. And as we let this wonderful feeling course through...
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An honest view: my Lisbon apartment.
Last week I moved into a new apartment here in Lisbon. When you travel a lot, it can affect your mood and eat away at your clear-thought-process. But once I settled down, unpacked my bags (which took...
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