In grocery stores here it is not uncommon to see rabbits next to the types of animals more familiar to most Americans as food, such as cows, pigs, and chickens. Like chickens, and quite unlike cows and pigs, rabbits are small, so in the grocery aisles a good portion of them are not chopped into … Continue reading Drive-for-life Mini Birthday Cake

Landscapes in the north of Spain are enchanting not because of their grandness (although they do possess this as well, and to such a degree as Rabbi Heschel says “everyone will admit that the Grand Canyon is more awe-inspiring than a trench”) but because they are always shifting. The sky that shifts between blasting heat … Continue reading Living-Splendor Boba

This week I read a poem titled “El Beso” by Esther de Cáceres, from her 1963 book Los Cantos Del Destierro. Although she was Uruguayan, at the end of her life she fell sick and chose to spend her final days in Galicia, so the Galician cultural office has on their website a collection of … Continue reading Pillowey Conchas