Andy HoffmanTiradentes, the colonial center of Brazil, has dozens of coffee shops, places that pride themselves on both their baking and their coffee. I won’t pretend…
We have to start with Shakespeare, because his play sets the tone. Over the centuries, people have taken so many perspectives on this tragic love…
A friend told us we had to visit Bichinho, a settlement a few miles afield from Tiradentes, a colonial town in Minas Gerais in Brazil.…
I woke up in the mountains of Brazil, in a small reconstructed colonial town called Tiradentes, named for an independence fighter who helped separate Brazil…
I claim no expertise on Christmas. I have no traditions. My first wife, though Jewish by birth, liked the pagan symbols of the season. She…
We live the way we do in small part because it quiets the awful noise made by the collapse of the American experiment in democracy.…
São Paulo changes fast. Most of the changes improve the city. Deb grew up here and harbors dreadful memories of violence, poverty, dictatorship, and environmental…
We must have passed The Cup and Saucer dozens of times driving on Vermont’s Route 100 near Wilmington. Route 100 runs the length of the…
Beginning in 2022, both Deb and I have taken writing retreats at the T.S. Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts; we go separately, because of the…
Among the many reasons, this one rises to the top. We ventured out of our neighborhood to meet a fellow writer our network had recommended…