Coffins and Cases
The first guitar that I bought I picked up from a pawn shop/second hand store just on the other side of the Bourne Bridge, on the Mass...
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Journalism, Anthropologizing,
and other rascunhos
Tales of travels to Portugal written to Ms. Adair's first grade class at Henry Barnard School, Rhode Island College
A Window back out on the old Village. The story of the Aldeia da Luz
The Aldeia da Luz is a small Portuguese village deep in the heart of the agricultural farmlands and vineyards of rural Alentejo. I should...
The Portuguese Atlantic
Portugal is on the eastern shore of the Atlantic, that swath of coastline and coastal plain that blows back up inland from the hard ocean...
Postcard from Lisboa: The World Cup Wrecks Brazil. A futebol game was also lost
the country's hosting of the Copa has revealed unapologetic corruption at the top-levels, gross governmental financial waste and human righ
Remembering Bacalhoeiro: the liner notes released with the 4th anniversary party CD
Published CD liner notes I was as surprised and I suppose as saddened as anyone else to hear that Bacalhoeiro was closing. I have been a...
Cesária Evora was a musician for the people
Published in New Bedford Standard Times, Dec 22, 2011 p A5. Back in 1999, I caught Cesaria Evora — who passed away on her native island...
The Last True Gentleman. Recollecting Fernando Aires. 1928-2010
Online version published in RTP Açores Comunidades. Once upon a time, Fernando Aires invited me to his house for lunch. I was living in...
Josay Saeramaygoe
I originally published this piece in my old weekly column in the Portuguese Times after a visit by the freshly minted nobel laureate José...
The Life of the Mind
2004 Brown University Graduate School Commencement Valedictorian, Published Brown University News & George Street Journal A few years...
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