Archive for mid-afternoon



Lugo Takes Latin American One More Step Left


h1 Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago in the early morning by oso

I’m going to try to get back in the blogging habit by translating at least one newspaper article or blog post a day from Spanish into English. We’ll see how long it lasts. From today’s La Nación, here are reactions by various Latin American presidents to the victory of ex-bishop, Fernando Lugo in Uruguay’s Sunday [...]

Lovers and Cities


h1 Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago in the late afternoon by oso

“San Francisco is like the lover of my dreams,” begins my sister, about to stick an oversized, oozing portion of panqueque con dulce de leche into her mouth, “but the relationship, for whatever reason, just doesn’t work out … you know what I mean?”
Her you-know-what-I-means always end with a slight wink of the right eye. [...]

[Changes] Loving Work, But Loving Life Too


h1 Posted 1 month ago in the early evening by oso

It’s midnight and I’m doing what I usually do at midnight - working. In fact, the reason I haven’t really written much of substance here for the past few weeks (months?) is ’cause I’ve been so tired of hearing myself talk about how busy I am.
A lot of my friends these days are professional or [...]