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Too much reminds me of something else lately. The slanted winter light; the musty smell emanating from the abandoned buildings I pass, or the old books I rummage through in stalls at the market; the parks all barren trees and lush carpets of dark green grass; rain spots on the…
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Everything in the narrow lanes of marble and granite mausoleums, monuments and headstones glows with that peculiar half-light of late autumn, early…
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I am at a loss for words. I am at a loss for words in three languages. There are experiences in life we know we shall encounter and there are those that…
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“How does someone from Nebraska end up living in Lisbon?” I am asked this question every week by American and British visitors to the Portuguese…
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The air is silver with sea mist—the hills of Setúbal, beyond the Rio Tejo, glimmer watercolor like, their serenity at odds with the roar of airplanes…
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On Keeping Journals
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"The bookcase glows, backlit in crimson light—tall and broad, its shelves empty—" This singular sentence is all that survives of the fourth draft of…
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I have been homesick lately. Not for any of the nine states, two countries and dozens of towns and cities in which I have lived, but for a particular…
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