On October 6th, 2018, I landed in Lisbon, exhausted and overwhelmed, with three suitcases, my dog, and my friend, Sophia. Yesterday marks three years of this luscious and sometimes vexing odyssey as a new immigrant in Portugal. What started as a one-year...
(this post is from my newsletter, which you can sign up for, here). I’ve spent a lot of time wandering around Porto this past week, visiting new-to-me neighborhoods and taking photos with my trusty but ancient iPhone 6s. I need to replace this phone soon, but I hang...
sometimes you have to go back to move forward… If you’ve been playing along, dear reader, you’ll know I’ve been in Porto. So, if I tell you I just returned to Porto on Monday, understandably, you might be confused. A quick recap: I decided to rent an apartment...
(From my recent newsletter. I don’t publish much here anymore, so sign up for my newsletter and never miss a post). Well, that was quite a year, wasn’t it? And it seems 2020’s specter is going to be hanging around for quite a while, at least halfway...
(Originally published 2 November 2020 on my newsletter life: examined. Please check it out and sign up–don’t miss an issue!) I was surprised to receive so many questions in response to my AMA (Ask Me Anything) invitation from my post Two Years in Portugal:...
When coronavirus hit, I lost my income overnight. As a freelance writer and consultant, working with nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and entrepreneurs, I was dragged along in the undertow of the virus’s economic repercussions. In classic domino effect...
