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Trips That Didn’t Happen

Sunday, June 6, 2021

GUATEMALA CITY—I wanted to call this essay, “Trips that Never Come to Pass,” or “Trips that Never Happened,” but that would presume to know the unknown. “Trips that were Postponed,” assumes they actually will happen and, “Trips that Were Postponed but Might or Might Not Happen, Who Knows Anything Anyway?” is just awkward.  My life […]

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The Long Central American Goodbye Part II: Bienvenido a Guatemala

Thursday, May 27, 2021

GUATEMALA CITY — There may be no place in the world more familiar to me than where I am now, here, back in Central America.  At this point I have lived abroad longer than in my hometown (at least in recent years) and anyway, my hometown isn’t my hometown. I first came to Central America, […]

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The Last Coliseum

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCIA– My taxi headed north on Avenida Cuauhtémoc through downtown Monterrey to my first bullfight.  It was a fine, hot Sunday in northern Mexico and the cloudless sky was the starched, flat blue of a faded work shirt.  I had bought my ticket, front row in the shade (barrera y sombre), a […]

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The Camel Fair of Pushkar

Sunday, April 26, 2020
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Varanasi & Ganga Ma

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

  VARANASI — It is the black hours before dawn. The boat pushes out into the slow current. The ghats and towers of the ancient city are outlined in the light of dim electric bulbs and small fires. Those lights create a half circle of light over the river that fades into the black of […]

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Ganpati Year Two

Friday, September 23, 2016
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Time of Monsoon

Monday, July 11, 2016

 

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The Gateway To India

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
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Ganpati

Wednesday, October 28, 2015
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Out of the City

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

MUMBAI—I had been too long in Mumbai. I had been too long with only the banyan trees of the city with their long tentacle roots for a taste of nature, the only horizon the Arabian Sea rolling in at the edge of the metropolis. But then one person introduced me to someone who introduced me to […]

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