Then, after many months of confinement, the world started to slowly move once again. At first reticently, fear reigned. We found it hard to remember what life had been like before. Had we really taken that holiday at the beginning […]
OK, I did promise to write about the bad back in pre-history (1980) San Sebastian when I first came ashore. Fair cop. I also said that there was a lot. (Before I get trolled, Part I deals with the good) […]
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 […]
My very good friend, Loreto Aramendi, is a wonderfully talented organist who plays at the Santa Maria Basilica in the old part of San Sebastian. She also tours all over the world, offering organ concerts wherever she is invited to […]
You’re not going to like this suggestion, but I’m going to say it anyway. Try switching off your mobile and disconnecting your computer for 24 hours. “Impossible!” I hear you say, but I assure you that it is possible and […]
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 […]
Confinement provokes very different feelings depending on the circumstances. Deprived of freedom and basic provisions causes people to react in surprisingly diverse, and not always positive, ways. In our lifetime lots of us may have already experienced some kind of […]
I too have turned my hand to bread baking during this unsettling time. It’s something I haven’t done on a regular basis since the Challenger exploded. At that time I was on a self-imposed lockdown in a snowbound Connecticut farmhouse […]
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 […]
So close, just 20kms or 15 minutes by car from Donosti….and yet so far. Iparralde. You won’t find it on any official map but all Basques know what and where it is: The “North Part” of The Basque Country. It […]
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