The Cuckoo’s Nest: My Days in a Spanish Elementary School, Part 5. For English Language Teachers:

In October 2010, I began a “teaching” assistant job in a bilingual elementary school in the center of Madrid.  On my first day, with the uneasy feeling of sliding into a house party full of unfamiliar people, I walked into the classroom to mingle with the twitchy, distracted children. As it turns out, the first… Read More The Cuckoo’s Nest: My Days in a Spanish Elementary School, Part 5. For English Language Teachers:

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Tenerife, et al…

For me, often photography is a paradox–the attempt at true representation of real life that at the same time requires a turning away, a distraction from the immediate happenings. You may, momentarily at least, and usually at the most beautiful moment, unwrap your arms from the warmth of another in order to mess with the… Read More Tenerife, et al…

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Salamanca, Parte 2

Salamanca is a town that continues to enchant me. I have experiences there that undoubtedly are facilitated by my blind bias and sunny attitude I get when I visit, but it is, at least, a place that reminds me of the world view that I really should hold everyday.  History is everywhere, walls and pathways… Read More Salamanca, Parte 2

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