Month: January 2008
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Beggars Would Ride
I, of course, should be slashing and tightening and tweaking the 420 pages of the novel. But, what am I doing? Squandering an hour or more making an avatar of myself. As we say in Jamaica, cu ya (look at this): It made my husband laugh–he thought it was cute. I only WISH I looked…
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Rainin’ in Rio!
Rio de Janeiro feels more familiar to a babe like me who knows from tropical Christmases. Heat, sweat at the hairline, linen clothes, palm trees, coconut water. And at breakfast papayas, pineapples, oranges, mangoes, guavas fruits, full-flavored bananas and jack fruit. Yes, yes, yes. Adding to my throb of nostalgia is that the street trees…
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Wild Waters of Iguassu
No, I’d never heard of the Iguassu Falls before this trip either. It’s the Eighth Wonder of the World, don’t you know. Impressive and thunderous, it straddles both Argentina and Brazil. These falls come in only second to Africa’s Victoria Falls. With more than 200 separate cascades, it’s taller than Niagara Falls by far. In…