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El Reposo (or.. when I fell) | 75 Palabras in Guatemala

By on September 24, 2017

I’m experiencing this ankle sprain on every level: the writer in me is taking copious mental notes, the foreigner is overwhelmed at how rattled they are by a sprained ankle and the human is simply hurt.

The reaction of my host family, how they surrounded and rallied around me in…


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El Tobillo (or.. when I fell) | 75 Palabras in Guatemala

By on September 24, 2017

Before that day, that fateful afternoon, I could say wrist, liver, distinguished, decade, hallucinogen, family planning and chemotherapy in Spanish, but not ankle.
So when I called my host sister and said “Yo necesito ayudo me caí después del mercado, aquí abajo” the words that I needed were the only…


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First Time Back | The Last Day in New York

By on September 2, 2017

On Monday July 3 I woke up in a hotel on the corner of 7th and 51st, Midtown Manhattan.

My sister and brother-in-law had already found a place for breakfast/lunch (we slept in!).

As we rallied, Mom and I, my Dad got antsy but endured my slow pace. I wasn’t in…

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All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.