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Fotocrônica

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When is life like an ice cream cone? (Fotocrônica)

a woman's hand holding an ice cream cone

Ever have one of those days where it feels like you just can’t do anything right? That you have to scrap everything and just start from zero again? Yeah. Me too. Today was one of those days. I pulled my car to the curb and sighed one of those sighs that wheeze out of your …

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Category: NostalgiaTag: açaí, blueberry, culture, food, Fotocrônica, Homesickness, ice cream

Parking Job

Wandering the streets of Belo Horizonte we looked up and were dumbstruck by this parking job. Now, I’m not sure what to marvel at first: the courage of the driver, the daring nature of the plan, or the apparent teeny size of the parking lot that led to this predicament. In any case, bravo. I’ll …

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Category: Comedic, JournalisticTag: bus, culture-shock, Fotocrônica, travel

Fotocrônica: Faith & Family

Faith and family. That’s about it for a Brazilian. And a good time. But faith and family usually come first. So it’s not surprising that this is a pretty typical Brazilian rear view mirror decoration. Keep what’s important in sight.

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Category: NostalgiaTag: Fotocrônica, rosary, shoes, travel

Fotocrônica: Import Taxes

I nearly cried in the post office. My mother sent us a box of used Legos, used baby clothes and other assorted items (none worth more than USD$10 each). The Brazilian Customs upon x-raying our box re-valued the items, deciding that in total they were worth R$350. They issued a tax based upon that worth. …

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Category: Socio-PoliticalTag: accident, Brazil, bureaucracy, bureauCRAZY, culture-shock, Customs, Fotocrônica, lessons-learned

Fotocrônica: Labrador Julieta?

This is Julieta.  She seems to be a big fan of  101 Dalmations.

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Category: Comedic, NostalgiaTag: Animal Farm, dogs, Fotocrônica, rural life

Fotocrônica: Too Many Avocados?

Oven filled with avocados

I suppose it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. Too many avocados? I’m not sure that’s possible. What? You don’t store your extra avocados in the oven?

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Category: Comedic, NostalgiaTag: avocados, food, Fotocrônica

Fotocrônica: Purple Eggs

Green Eggs and Ham may be a thing of fiction, but purple eggs? For reals. Not even dyed. My brother-in-law cares for the cows and is often wandering home with some discovered wonder–a stash of passionfruits, an orange the size of a grapefruit, and, why, oh why I didn’t take a photo of the 1.5m (dead) …

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Category: JournalisticTag: birds, eggs, Fotocrônica, rural life, spotted nothura

Fotocrônica: A New Leaf

I got home the other evening and said to myself, “My, that’s new. I’ve never seen green leaves on that plant. Waittaminute….” Well played, my little friend, well played.

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Category: JournalisticTag: Fotocrônica, insects, nature

Musicrônica: Som e Alegria

It was a hot bus ride home at the end of a day of touristing in Salvador, Bahia. We were taking advantage of my pregnant belly to sit up front in the preferential service seats, so I could see them hop onto the bus out of the corner of my eye. They started to introduce …

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Category: Journalistic, Socio-PoliticalTag: culture, Fotocrônica, happiness, music, Som e Alegria, travel

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