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Time is Everything

pocket watch emerging from the sand

Hey y’all—I just wanted to share something with you. I’m wicked excited. I started this great course (Happy Birthday to me! Thanks Dad!). Why? You might have noticed that there’s been a lull in the writing over here at Minhas Crônicas do Brasil. Part of that is life with a toddler and a full-time job. Part …

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Category: NostalgiaTag: happiness, lessons-learned, writing

Thumbs up

Faithful readers, did you step on over to Expatsblog.com and leave a review for Minhas Crônicas do Brasil for Best Brazilian Blog of 2012? Judging closes tomorrow, December 18, so waste no time!  Leave some love and help me to win a nifty logo and writer bragging rights. Tell me what you adore about my blog …

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Category: JournalisticTag: expatblog.com, writing

Grown-up Steps

I’m excited to announce that my humble little blog is now listed on Expatsblog.com and is now in the running for the Top Brazilian Blog of 2012. Let me just take a moment to say how much I love this website and love the many voices from all over the world.  Talk about your grand melting pot. …

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Category: JournalisticTag: Ex-Pat, expatblog.com, writing

Dry well

During the day my brain is a dry well like the one in our field spitting out muddy water, running dry before you can fill a few paragraphs. At night the words come beating against the back of my eyes scratching open my eyelids twitching the tips of my fingers. They chant: Find us a …

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Category: Nostalgia, PoetryTag: dry well, writing

Sometimes, the books they choose you.

"Boa Companhia: Crônicas" cover

My first library card Here was my first official document in Brazil.  A library card. A small thing, really. Nonetheless, it gave me a finger-hold on normalcy in this mental terrain still trembling with the aftershocks of my relocation.  I drifted among the stacks, comforting myself with the familiar patterns of books on shelves, familiar …

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Category: Nostalgia, PhilosophyTag: culture-shock, literature, portuguese translations, the beginning, writing

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