Category: Cultural

The Day “Grab a Pen” Became “Sleep With a Pen” I was fresh off a

I used to think a “sandwich” was a sandwich—until the day I ordered one in

The Moment “Cool” Fractured into Three One Friday night at a rooftop bar in Medellín

A Tale of Two Taxi Drivers My first week in Medellín, a taxi driver serenaded

Waves slapped the Malecón wall in Havana, a salt mist haloing my notebook. I was

I thought I had Spanish wired after ten years toggling Dominican merengue chatter and Colombian

Few language shocks rival standing on a Cádiz pier at sunset, overhearing fishermen swap banter

I first tasted the power of Mexican mini-suffixes on a scorching afternoon in Cartagena. A

The first time a Canarian surfer handed me a banana at Playa de las Canteras,

A humid night in Santo Domingo, I sat nursing a presidente beer with a porteño