It being another lovely Saturday, and tragically, our last for awhile in Argentina, we decided to hit up one of the few places left (within walking distance) we’ve never been - El Jardin Japones.
It was such a funny feeling after watching Vonnegut & SSG Millie’s trip from afar to then wander into a microcosm of [...]

We’ve actually taken off two weekends in a row recently to do nothing but be tourists in our adopted home town…for us, this is extremely rare; the events of the past month have made us slow down a little bit and appreciate what we have all around us.
This is me on Avenida 9 de Julio, [...]

Sorry for the lack of posting recently; el Oso spent most of the past month in the hospital. We’re slowly getting back to normal but he’s going to be fine, so I hope to be writing here more often.
Only a week left in Argentina before returning briefly to the States. So much work to do [...]

I have been feeling almost unbearably cooped-up.
We have been spending a lot of time at home and in cafes, on a seemingly constant loop of writing, eating and sleeping in too late.
In reality I like the private, quiet hours of the early morning; I rarely fall asleep before 3 or 4 a.m.
No [...]

It’s now July, the Buenos Aires equivalent of Deep Freeze. Yet, even in winter, the city remains verdant, or more precisely, half-so - one block may feature a towering row of sycamores, stripped naked to their mottled skins, still dropping their last leaves. The next? Jungle-dense with glossy, larger-than-life greenhouse plants and thick intricate fig [...]

El Oso and I are in Buenos Aires for the next three months working on the books. We’ve been here a month already this year. It seems like it’s been winter forever. We spent the Northern Hemisphere’s winter in rural Pennsylvania, freezing our asses off. Now, as the corn is growing and the sun is [...]