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  • No Bounds

    I have just found out from a very reliable source that the person taking care of my dog in Argentina complained about having to do it on an almost daily basis. The source also said that a dog activist called to ask why my dog was left alone most of the day. I wish I had known about this in t... Read more ...

    Published on 05/28/2010 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

  • Him

    She saw him and became the 18 year old girl she had been long ago. Her heart stopped. She couldn’t have moved even if she had wanted to. She stared at his soft brown hair and his fair skin. Still good looking, she thought. She shook her head. But you are not that girl now, she scolded herself. T... Read more ...

    Published on 04/26/2010 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

  • Argentina’s Dirty War

    Argentina ’s Dirty War I have read in the paper that Reynoldo Bignone, the military president of Argentina from July 1982 to December 1983, has been sent to jail for all the crimes he committed during the Dirty War in Argentina in the 1970s. He sent people to be tortured and killed. I thin... Read more ...

    Published on 04/21/2010 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

  • Sexual Abuse in the Church

    Sexual Abuse in the Church It seems funny to me that when I fell in love with a priest years ago, a big deal was made of it. In the neighborhood there were people whispering behind my back (and his) and when he was transferred to another parish church, it was rumored that it was because of me. M... Read more ...

    Published on 03/20/2010 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

  • Subway Death

    I think about the woman killed at the 77th Street subway in Manhattan the other day (last Thursday) as she tried to retrieve the bag that fell on the tracks. I had Sports sac bag years ago when I used to go back and forth between Argentina and San Francisco. And the 77th Street subway is near wh... Read more ...

    Published on 03/15/2010 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

  • Argentina

    Monday, January 25, 2010: It is said that the drug problem in Argentina is bigger than it was before and that they mug you for very little money. One has to be very careful and even that does not often help. Read more ...

    Published on 01/25/2010 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

  • Argentina's New Crisis

    Argentina’s political crisis has not been getting too much attention in the American papers. Other countries have problems that are arguably more media oriented. Presidenta Kirchner fired the President of the Central Bank because he would not release funs (billions of dollars) that she wanted hi... Read more ...

    Published on 01/14/2010 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

  • December 22

    Today would have been my mother’s birthday. My mother, whose theme song was the beautiful tango Malena sung by a 1940s singer named Fiorentino. And who lost her mother, her best friend, in March 1940 and never got over her death. My grandmother Ana became a single mother at 31 after my grandfath... Read more ...

    Published on 12/22/2009 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

  • Chiquito's Resting Place

    Thursday, December 17, 2009: A year ago today, Chiquito, my aristocratic dog, was buried in the garden of the vet's brother's house in Francisco Solano. Francisco Solano is in the province of Buenos Aires. If there something that I regret it is this: I was not with my dog during the last days of... Read more ...

    Published on 12/17/2009 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

  • One Year

    One year ago tomorrow (the 15th of December fell on a Monday), I made frantic phone calls to Argentina. The first phone call, from a pay phone outside the NY public library on 58th between Park and Lexington, informed me that Chiquito was very ill. He had anemia and the vet was doing all he coul... Read more ...

    Published on 12/14/2009 in My Life in Argentina and Beyond

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