1.Stay up late following your husband on FlightAware as he travels from Miami to Madrid. Imagine him on a half-full Iberia jumbo jet drinking red wine, easing into chat in his native tongue, dozing off to the quiet sounds of Spanish […]
On the train to Madrid today, I wondered: Can I still post on Dispatches from Donosti if I am no longer in Donosti, in fact, not even in Spain, or even Europe? Heading out on a trip that will take […]
I know, I know, this is SUCH a trivial problem it seems insensitive to blog about it. The pandemic is killing thousands of people a day, wreaking economic havoc around the world, and I’m bitching about this. On the other […]
Throughout this pandemic and confinement, I’ve been waking up to bad news pretty much every day. Usually it has to do with death, disease, U.S. government incompetency, or some other coronavirus-related nightmare. The thing is, I receive these horror shows […]
Unlike the French, who have an academy to maintain the purity of their language, we English speakers have no such institution, nor do we desire one. We delight in moving words between parts of speech, and with open arms we […]
As of this last weekend, my mother-in-law has been locked down for one month. Thirty one days, by herself, in her apartment, in a neighborhood called Herrera, on the outer edges of San Sebastian. And while the rest of us, […]
I woke up today, the first day of a five day Easter Holiday, to some very loud Spanish rap from the building behind mine, the news that Bernie Sanders had dropped out of the U.S. presidential race, and a sweep […]
A few days ago, I received a message from a friend in Maryland who works for the county government. “Does lockdown work?” She asked, knowing I was in Spain, where we went into lockdown just over three weeks ago. Constituents […]
The title of this page may seem oxymoronic–and maybe it is– both oxymoronic AND moronic. Before I go any further, I want to be clear–in no way is this focus on humor meant to distract from the very real problems […]
This morning I really wanted to dispatch some good news. Because as of yesterday, the number of new cases in Spain seemed to be leveling off. This would indicate that just past two weeks into lockdown, we were approaching the […]
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