Letters from Grenada

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“the lady is reading”

Another notebook excerpt. I wrote a story about this one, but it still needs some serious trimming/editing. I’ll post it when/if I manage to edit it down to fewer than 1000 words.
The super-short version is: Back in 2005 when I first got to Grenada, I was a total mess. Like so traumatized by the events [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2010 under Grenada. Tags: caribbean, early days, Grenada, journals from grenada, notebook excerpts. Comments Off

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.

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