On Friday, I posted the following on my Twitter account: “Auto reply stating I no longer work ‘there’ is set and in full effect. Pretty much an era (career-wise) is over. Crazy.” An end of an era for sure. I spent almost seven years working for a Japanese- American company and selling the rights to …
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Work and travel, travel and work
My husband’s a busy guy. On top of that, he actually loves to work. So when it came time to plan yet another business trip to China to attend the Canton Fair, he went full throttle and built his agenda to include back-to-back meetings with suppliers, as well as back-to-back viewings of showrooms, booths and, …
Strange things are afoot at Dario Urzua*
Holy son of a motherless goat. I just had the weirdest experience with the world outside of my apartment. When I stepped into the elevator to take Obi outside for his evening stroll, I found this flier taped to the elevator wall: It’s a call to prayer to the entire “community” (i.e. building) in honor …
Landing a job in Chile
We all need our lessons in humility; it’s good for the soul and puts hair on our chest. Though I’ve never been the kind of person who’s too big for her britches (in fact, I generally need a dose of self confidence more often than not) there are some aspects of my life that I …
25 Random Things
In March 2009, I was tagged in one of those Facebook Notes entitled “25 Random Things.” I thought it was pretty cool and so I did one myself and tagged 25 friends with whom I wanted to share my own version of the list. Over a year later (tonight), since I happen to be the …
The weirdo
I can’t remember where it was I read that one of the key elements to writing a ‘tween or young adult book was to make sure you had an awkward, relatively weird, outsider kind of protagonist. This made sense to me since teenagers, especially pre-teens, are all kinds of awkward. In fact, today we needn’t …
2010, all eyes on Chile
When I lived back home, I don’t recall Chile ever being in the news (more so, editorials regarding wine and travel). Yet in the span of one year – even less, really – Chile has been in the news twice: both reasons due to major events that catapulted us to the forefront of world news …
Overdosing on nostalgia
There’s something that is quite evident between Chileans who live outside of Chile, something that I too used to share with enthusiastic vigor. There is a tendency to idealize this country and recall with a deep sense of nostalgia all the memories ever created during the time spent in this narrow land. It wouldn’t be …
The loaded question
As I was leafing through today’s El Mercurio, I came across an editorial piece entitled “¿Donde estudiaste?” or “Where did you study?” After reading the one-page article, I actually felt PLEASED (of all things!) because the author reflected what I have thought all along about this ridiculous question: Discriminatory by defacto, this question seems to …
Our dining experiences in Santiago (Part 1)
G and I were a long-distance couple for about eight months before I made the big move to Chile (You can read about the beginning of our relationship, how we met, our courtship and the proposal here.) Granted, we were lucky that our time apart didn’t span years, as it does for so many other …