Letters from Grenada

Posts tagged stream of consciousness

note to self

Remember that scene in Father of the Bride? Not the old one. The one with Steve Martin. Remember the scene in the grocery store? All he wants to do is buy some hot dogs and some buns, only hot dogs come in packages of eight and buns come in packages of twelve, and that’s just [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2010 under Grenada. Tags: navel-gazing, rants, stream of consciousness. 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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