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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Suddenly, all that good cheer from last week seems to have evaporated on this manic Monday. The Autonomous regions, always looking to pick a fight with Madrid, are claiming that because the Central Government insisted on distributing incoming supplies themselves, […]
Today, Spain went into lockdown. Sort of. We woke up to a gorgeous blue sky, rare around these parts–San Sebastian is in the humid north where it rains a lot, and I mean A LOT. In a state of disbelief, […]
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