Yesterday I was feeling a bit too snarky to write a blog post about what I was thankful for.  It was Thanksgiving Day for me as an American, but in 37C heat I wasn’t in the mood to even think about turkey!
S came to me after work last night and we went to a restaurant [...]

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It’s 36C today (which is 96.8F) and this poem popped into my head today by Shel Silverstein:
It’s Hot
by Shel Silverstein
It’s hot!
I can’t get cool,
I’ve drunk a quart of lemonade,
I think I’ll take my shoes off
And sit around in the shade.
It’s hot!
My back is sticky,
The sweat rolls down my chin.
I think I’ll take my clothes off
And [...]

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I didn’t write a “What’s Cooking Wednesday” so I thought I’d post a recipe today instead, hence the funny title.
It’s hot.  I haven’t had a chance to get much food shopping down.  But I seem to have tomatoes around a lot lately.  And bread.
I’ve seen so many different versions of panzanella, a salad with the [...]

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Like Johanna in her blog entry from Friday, my “adornos” that I do are finally the result of a very organic process that followed me on my path of self-discovery with Tango. I may have admired other dancers and tried to put some of their moves into practice (discarding what didn’t feel right), but [...]

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I tied my stomach in knots the past few days with all of this Italian stuff, but riding the bus to Miss Tango’s house yesterday, I realized that whatever happens later, whatever I happen to manifest, will happen.  But right now I am in Buenos Aires.  In this very moment.  I am here.  Now.  I [...]

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Ha!  Here I have just witness my greatest desire coming to me.  My most important goal being achieved.  Something I’ve always wanted is now mine.  And there I was last night, freaking out about other stuff and worrying.  I am so funny.  It’s like a herd of elephants is marching right past me, each of [...]

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I had a big little freak-out tonight at home, while I was exploring my options as an Italian citizen.  Looking for ways I can manage to organize a move over there eventually, in 2009.  Things like that.  But man, there is a global economic crisis and I think we are all feeling it.  I make [...]

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There’s that whole thing about if you love someone or something, set it free.  Sometimes to achieve our greatest desires, we have to let them go.  Letting go of something is a sign of having sure faith.  And so I did.  I, along with my family, sent the papers in, sent a prayer to the [...]

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It’s been a long week, I’ve been getting up every day at 6am and working hard translating and translating – a lot.  I’m definitely ready for some Tango.  But for now, time for me and a book to take advantage of the tiny downstairs patio.   Well, it’s not *that* tiny, tonight I’m going [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned coming home from a milonga at 3am to find my roommates getting ready to leave the house for a party.  I got a lot of comments and especially e-mails on that one for some reason.
What amuses me is that people were so taken by the fact that I [...]

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