Letters from Grenada

Posts tagged fall

on winter light and other random revelations

This photo very succinctly tells the story of my morning. Today’s a gorgeous day. Fall has always been my favorite.
I realized today that the sunlight in New England is turning to winter. (That sentence makes better sense if you consciously think of “winter” as an adjective.) This is the kind of thing that I understood [...]

Posted on October 10th, 2009 under Grenada. Tags: fall, joaquin the illustrious bean, leaving Grenada, photo, PHOTOS, reverse culture shock, winter. Comments: 1

maria at piscesinpurple dot com

My name is María. I like wasabi, patronize bunny rabbits and think red wine really needs to stop pretending it's not purple.

I lived in Caribbean for four glorious years. My son - Joaquín the illustrious Bean - was born on the island of Grenada. He's beautiful, brilliant and has two birth certificates.

Now we're back in the land of snow and afternoon sunsets, and all the diet Coke and Thomas the Tank Engine in the world won't cushion the blow of such culture shock.

This is our story.

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