The Colombians love any excuse to throw a party.   They even have 1 word for what we call a “going away party”.  They call it a despedida (a lot less klude-y, in my opinion).  I’ve seen enough people leave...

The goal with mom was to see as much as possible in the final 2 weeks of her time with us.  This is her first visit to northern California so we have to see: all of San Fran, do a...

I like to try to make connections between what's going on and what we're feeling.  If I had to make a best guess, I'd say our last year was all about strangling every last second of fun out of every...