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A Year in Spain (Part Two)

We moved to Spain a year ago today. The most significant difference has been how safe and calm I feel living here. The Spanish have a beautiful word for it: Tranquilo. Three hundred days of sunshine a year and welcoming and joyous people have done wonders for my mood. It turns out I wasn’t depressed....

A Year in Spain

As of December 7, we have lived in Barcelona for twelve months. To quote a line from a favorite movie, “Inconceivable!” It started in early 2023 with us dreaming, “Oh my, what if we could be like Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, Salvador and Gala Dali, Pablo Picasso and Genevieve Laporte? What if we were...

Guapa

Original Watercolor on Handmade Paper 51 x 38 cm Guapa is the Spanish word for beautiful.

A Bittersweet Thanksgiving

Spain does not celebrate Thanksgiving. It is a distinctively American experience. It is ironic that last year in America, Gina and I spent Thanksgiving alone at our home in Dunedin. However, Ray, our long-time friend (over three decades), and his partner Alan will be with us this year. We plan to gather around the table...

The Art of Fucking

EXCERPT FROM The Shy Paramour’s Manual by RANDY ELROD, DFG Doctor of the Forbidden Genitals  —For the Guidance of Repressed Persons— (Drawing by Pablo Picasso) It is a shameful matter, dear reader, that despite humanity’s long experience of fucking you still do not know how you fuck, or how you ought to fuck. It is commonly...

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What My Two Affairs Taught Me About Infidelity

I’m not sure it’s possible to justify my liaisons with two women (one married, one divorced), but what I learned from having them warrants discussion—not between the husband and ex and me. However, it might be interesting to hear their side. No, this discussion should happen between partners annually, the way we inspect the tire...

My Raw Thoughts A Few Minutes After the 2024 Presidential Election Was Called

Shock. Horror. Disbelief. Disappointment. Hollow vindication. These are a few of the violent emotions that swept over me this morning when the Associated Press confirmed that a psychopathic criminal filled with hatred has been re-elected President of the United States.  Surreal. I would never have dreamed this would happen after the traitorous attempted coup and...

Four Days of Solitude and Magic at Montserrat Monastery

For the past four days, I have disappeared from the world. No media, no people, no news, just me. Alone with myself. For three nights and four blissful days, I retreated to the Montserrat Monastery, high in the mountains of Spain. Montserrat is a Spanish name derived from the Latin terms “mons” (mountain) and “serratus”...