Category: Cultural

The “Embarazada” Budget Blunder One breezy evening in Santo Domingo my girlfriend and I sat

Bachata Beats and Cognitive Breakthroughs I first noticed the magic of language chunking during a

The Motoconcho Mistake That Started My Phrasebook Two years into Dominican life I still fumbled

The Coconut Invitation I Learned to Decline Last Easter Sunday in Santo Domingo, my neighbor

Sweat Drops and Fog Banks It was 7 a.m. in Santo Domingo when the security

Coconut Husks and Color-Coded Bins Saturday mornings in Santo Domingo usually start with the echo

Rice Bags, Rain Clouds, and a New Kind of Fluency One gray morning after Hurricane

Home Run Roars and Goal-Line Gasps A sticky July night in Santiago’s Estadio Cibao I

Fade Failures and Fresh Starts in Santo Domingo The first time I walked into Don

A Surprise at the Appliance Store Last August in Santiago de los Caballeros, my blender