Reporting from San Sebastian and the nearby areas as society navigates through lockdown and the pandemic.
These three Chillida Leku Sculpture illustrations were drawn from photos I took on a visit to this wonderful museum back in the summer of last year. I have invented the titles for each one as I cannot remember them and […]
Fourteen-year-old Amaia Bacaicoa Jones from San Sebastian has been keeping occupied during the lockdown by taking photos.
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’ve just received a lovely message from my niece in the UK wishing me a Happy Easter, and we reminded each other of how we had been together this time last year. In the current situation, I would have probably […]
Every once in a while, this Covid-19 thing brings back flashes of Nicaragua, where I spent a good part of three years between 1983 and 1986, first as a cotton- and coffee-picking brigadista (that’s me with the shovel on latrine […]
It was a beautiful day to go nowhere. The sun was shining, birds were singing, and spring was in the air. But Claudia and Martin were bored having to stay in the house for another long day of quarantine until… […]
And so, I am asked, what is happening up there on your mountain top? What has changed? And I have to sit and think for a moment. Holding back my thoughts from taking flight with the birds singing is the […]
It’s been two weeks since I’ve been out on the street. It really has. Hard to believe isn’t it? Hunkering down at home has become the norm for me. After incredulity and a kind of grieving process for normality, acceptance […]
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 […]
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