The Cosmos of Kerala

November 8, 2022.Reading time 14 minutes.

Cosmopolitan, before the word was invented by the ancient Greeks, who had already known of Kerala.

Journey to Cuetzalan

June 18, 2022.Reading time 14 minutes.

Rain brought back memories that weren’t actually mine, including how my father ate fried ants in his native sierra.

Anar, my love.

December 23, 2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

There is a story behind why the name of my favorite fruit rolls off my tongue in neither English nor Spanish.

The Assassination of João Gordo

December 18, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

When a tree is cut down in order to intimdate certain people, it is called an “assassination”.

Ludovica and the Art of Yoga

October 17, 2021.Reading time 34 minutes.

More than the story of how the press never discovered Ludovica’s scandal, my story is one about ageing. About ethics. But more importantly, it is about how the vision of Yoga is transformational.

Marlene

July 11, 2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

It was on the special occasion of her last night in Rio de Janeiro. We were smashed up against the bar of a famous samba venue when two warrior women, exaggerating their merriment, disrespected the personal space of the Queen.

The Untaken Frame

September 10, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It was an honor to have the story of the picture I chose not to take to be selected by JAGGERY, the literay jounal of South Asia:

On Mafia and Meditation

December 30, 2019.Reading time 16 minutes.

I saw how perfect and uniform all of the red fruit were, but I was more preoccupied trying to remember how many of them I would need for the various recipes I would exact. It might have been that same subliminal suspicion that had made me separate, but not read, an article on the global Italian and Chinese mafias for tomatoes.