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    I gave my card to Debby

    chiselch / October 5, 2019

    Not little Debby, the face of bad pastry. Debby, the Croatian immigre to Montreal, the barista who saw me standing outside her little coffee shop and brought a treat out for our dog…

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    For a great haircut

    chiselch / May 5, 2019

    I went to Lagos, Portugal, and got a the best haircut I’ve gotten in years. I won’t say I went to Lagos to get a haircut, but I did go to Lagos, and…

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    Last thoughts of persons victimized by the charitable impulse to share some scraps

    chiselch / February 23, 2016

    On the off-chance that this document survives what now appears inevitable, I want you to know that it all occurred not out of malice, nor with any indifference to the slippery slope that…

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    Start walking, keep walking and don’t stop walking until you are full

    chiselch / January 26, 2016

    How can anyone experience anything of a place at the speed of auto-motion? Cars and buses are great for moving us from Point A to Point F and quickly past Points B, C,…

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    Collectivos, buses provide cheap transit path to rich Oaxaca experience

    chiselch / January 9, 2016 / 0 Comments

    With three weeks remaining on our two-month stay in Oaxaca, I took a collectivo out to the airport yesterday. “A what?” you ask. It’s a local transit option, a little bit taxi, a…

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    Waiting on a shaky premise for the garbage man to come

    chiselch / December 31, 2015 / 0 Comments

    Streaks of apricot light dance above the eastern horizon, a band plays somewhere down below, and fireworks pock the Oaxaca dawn as I haul the garbage can down free-form concrete pavement one block…

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