We have plans after all

Christmas was very quiet at the Guzmán-Domínguez household. With John just out of surgery and my getting a nasty cold with laryngitis, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were like any other day. No visits, no friends, no special dinner (OK, John made his super awesome stuffed potatoes). And it kind of makes me depressed to [...]

Christmas 2008

Politically Incorrect Holidays

I finished getting my Christmas cards ready today. It has always been a tradition I enjoy, sending out a little greeting to friends and family. I think I still have every single card I’ve received during the last 10 years, since I started using the Internet and making friends all over. However, this year I [...]

The Loneliness of Immigrants

Not long ago, I read a blog piece in El País, a Colombian newspaper. It was about how lonely people get when they move to a new country. All my fellow ex-pats know exactly how this feels, especially during the holidays when everyone seems to have a family plan, and ours is thousands of miles [...]

To Spyder and the other Canadians… :-)