I’ve always wanted to go to Australia. Who knows if it is ever going to happen now. But I can tell you this much: I will not see Australia the way that Rupert Guinness did. In 2017, he joined a group of endurance cyclists on a trip across Australia’s southern coast. They started at Freemantle,… [Read More]
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To the People of San Esteban Mártir
Are we strangers? I think we are, in large part due to our huge language barrier, although social class came into play. Mexican society is hierarchical, and I’m an upper-middle class white lady. I started visiting your parish while teaching at the Universidad de Guadalajara through the Fulbright program in the winter of 2019. My… [Read More]
Singapore: Rich People Problems
This book is a lot of fun. Singapore is out of anything remotely approaching alphabetical order on the list of nations in my pandemic armchair travel project. But I was in need of something fun to read, and this fit the bill and then some. This is the third book in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich… [Read More]
Angola: Saudade
When I last wrote about Angola, it was about the country’s culture and customs , because why not? If I am ever able to travel there, it will be useful information. For this country-by-country challenge, I went with fiction. Saudadeis a novella by Suneeta Peres da Costa about a Goan (Indian) family living in Angola… [Read More]
Invest for Better Circles
I recently discovered a new resource for people who want to learn more about social investing, Invest for Better. It’s a program connected to the Philanthropic Initiative of the Boston Foundation, designed to help people who have the means to give learn about philanthropy and investing. The program is designed to help women in particular… [Read More]
