Happy MLK, Jr. Day; travel to Antigua; and the Mamalita book tour goes East.
This morning Mateo said that if he lived “in the olden days,” he would have to go to a “little school with no playground.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Because my skin is dark,” Mateo said. My son then...
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Guatemala, Guatemala. February 2013
Last Saturday, Mateo, my sister Patrice, and I arrived in my favorite place on earth, Antigua, Guatemala. It’s insane how much I love Antigua—the colonial architecture and cobblestone streets, the...
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Semana Santa 2013. Our trip so far.
This week in Antigua for Olivia and me: visits to Guatemala’s Children’s Museum and the National Zoo (both fabulous), marimba players and traditional dancers at the Don Rodrigo in Antigua...
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Canillas de Leche
For his 5th-grade cultural project, Mateo chose the food of the Ancient Maya. Mostly this involved discussing the history of chocolate and tracking down roasted cacoa beans like the ones Mateo learned...
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A visit with friends in Guatemala
When Olivia was a toddler, I moved to Antigua and rented a small house where we lived together while her adoption paperwork was being finalized. I studied Spanish a few afternoons a week, leaving...
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Our front door 2016
Every year when Olivia and I return to Antigua and visit the house where we lived together in 2003, we take a photo of us standing by the front door. Last summer, we forgot to take the picture, or so...
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