Letters from afar
October 24th, 2020 Tordesillas, Spain, Happy Fall everyone, I hope you are staying warm! September has turned into late October . The fields are yellowing and brown. Where once colorful flowers danced on the gentle breezes of spring, seed pods remain drooping dry and hollow— reaching for the repose of their winter bed. “What is …
October 24th, 2020 Tordesillas, Spain Regions are closing borders and curfews are in place. Before I left the islands, I would meet my big-smiled, bouncy haired friend Esther at the beach. We played card games, went swimming, and talked about life. One day just before I left for mainland Spain, she had this lightbulb moment, …
Late September 2020 Tordesillas, Spain (My new home!) Dear everyone, I hope this correspondence finds you in good spirits! I’m in adjustment phase with my new home, it’s no terrace with gorgeous views overlooking the ocean, but it’s comfortable in its own right. The sunsets over the Río Duero are spectacular and each evening the …
Tordesillas, Valladolid September 14, 2020 I have a new hogar in the small town of Tordesillas where I am teaching this year— yay me! A new home is exciting. I don’t have many things— necessary or otherwise, so I went with a furnished place and a kitchen with —well, let’s say I’ve got the necessary …
Monday morning, September 7th, 2020 The Pandemic continues. I am hesitant to be on the mainland of Spain, there are so many more cases of Covid here than on the islands. The Canaries have been somewhat buffered from a direct Covid-hit. Fuerteventura has been mostly shut down since March leaving the island tourist-free and as …