Having never lived through war in my back yard, civil or otherwise, I am struck at first with the horror of it.  I ponder how one could continue with any semblance of routine; going to work, sending the kids off to school or out to play or getting a peaceful nights sleep.  Of course after a time I [...]

This is to let you all know that Luis will be commenting on the pages up to 248 in just a couple of days.  But in the mean time, keep reading as we will be up to page 285 by next Monday the 21st!  You all know that we are reading this book in one [...]

Nuestro comentario acerca del libro de Isabel Allende: “La Hija de la Fortuna” se centra en esta oportunidad en la integración de diferentes trasfondos culturales y sociales de los protagonistas en esta sección del libro. En nuestros comentarios de la clase del lunes, comentamos eventos importantes relacionados con la historia, la cultura y una forma [...]

I am out numbered in my house today; three Peruvians to one Minnesotan.  We have visitors from Peru who are on their way back home to Lima and Pura from a season working at Lutsen, a local ski resort.  Since we have a small place, they will be camping out on the sofa, a reality I tried [...]

Okay here´s what I’m thinking.  We’ll start with this line up of movies but I would love to hear suggestions for future viewing from you all.  In my list you’ll note that when available I have included a link to it’s trailer in YouTube.  Let’s take two weeks for each one which means from today, we will [...]

This is what I imagined was going on in the heads of the native Spanish speakers at my Meetup.com Spanish conversation group last night.  There were two folks from Mexico, one from Columbia and one from somewhere in Central America, I didn’t quite catch it.  The rest of us, about 10 or so, were native English speakers and present [...]