This morning I went to schedule an appointment for a haircut with Africa, whom I have been seeing since she did my hair for our wedding last year. After some small talk we set an appointment and I watched as she wrote the time and “Walker” down. Noticing I was watching, she hesitated, [...]
Milo went with us on our trip to Lagos and Lisbon last week and I think we can safely say he’s as fully recovered as he’s going to get. He ran on the beach, sat at cafes and barked at anything that came by the car; in short what he always did. He’s [...]
This week is “Corpus” in Granada, the annual week-long feria (fair) that is during the week of Corpus Christi (body of Christ). Corpus is filled with fun things like parades, a fair, music, arts and everything you’d expect and possibly heard of about the famous ferias in Andalucia. We went to the parade [...]
A few weeks ago I took our dog to the courtyard on our street to sit in the sun. As I sat on the stone wall and looked around I saw a very stiff, very dead, animal leg – sticking up out of the dirt. There was a time (I call it “before [...]
I end up at the local hardware store a few times a month; most hardware stores here are small independent affairs with a small selection of very common things available to browse but with the bulk of the inventory upstairs or downstairs in a place for employees only. So of course to get most [...]