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Recently, I entered in Conde Nast Traveler’s Dream Trip Contest. Basically, the contest is a photo/essay contest mixed with a trip planning contest. I would love it if you’d go vote for my photo, so here’s the link.
The trip I planned and submitted was a tour of South America, starting in Peru and ending in [...]

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On why I ‘m riding a train back to Cincinnati to help save my home-town, State, and Country…

Background:
Late last week, my dear friend Lauree Hayden (an amazing force inside the SEIU) emailed me a link to this campaign ad from congressional candidate Vernon Robinson:
[audio:miller_mariachi.mps]
After listening to the spot, I replied to Lauree, saying:
it sucks being [...]

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Home now.
So it has been quite some time since I’ve put anything up here on this page of mine. I do have an excuse: life doesn’t stop.
Leaving Spain was hard. Leaving my home and my housemates of Puebla 7 was even more hard. When will a gypsy flamenco, a traveling artista, and a exploring American [...]

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6/6/04
There’s thunder in Madrid tonight, and each crack brings me to other times and places. The rain started while I was standing in the kitchen, doing the weekend’s dishes, and I, for a moment, was home in Ohio, washing the dishes, staring out into what would have been the rain spotted pond in front of [...]

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6/6/04
There’s thunder in Madrid tonight, and each crack brings me to other times and places. The rain started while I was standing in the kitchen, doing the weekend’s dishes, and I, for a moment, was home in Ohio, washing the dishes, staring out into what would have been the rain spotted pond in front of [...]

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For the second day in a row, I was at the Madrid-Barajas airport bright and early. Yesterday I was there to see my cousin Alex and grandmother Norma off after their two-week stay in Spain. Today it was to say goodbye to my friend, and faithful study abroad companion, Evan.
Today’s blog is dedicated to him.On [...]

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It really was one of those moments that passes and then only days later you can believe. This is what happened when, on Friday night while hanging out with my visiting cousin Alex and my buddy Evan at the Calle Puebla apartement, Willy walked in with his girlfriend Silvina after a long night working.
I hadn’t [...]

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11-M
(from a letter to my mother)
I understand that many may feel worried or indescribably preoccupied right now, not only with me being here in Spain right now, but also with what generally is seen as “what this world is up to.” And I am too, but not for being here. Yes, there was a scare, [...]

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+++Pensamiento del día: “Amigos te hacen la vida más facil.”+++Foto del día:Caption: Tate Modern Art Museum; The Brinker boys and me.

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The beauty of last night’s Superbowl tore 5 months of soccer fundamentalism out of me, and reminded me that beauty really is in all things. By the end of the night, we laughed, we cried, we sang, and we drank… It was truly truly truly a Super Superbowl.
…and we won

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