Letters from Buenos Aires

• Feral Cat and Farm Dog Move to Argentina: A Drama in Three Acts

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Cooking the Poncho and Other Misadventures in Spanish

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• Duct Tape, Chewing Gum, Pragmatism, and a Prayer: Holding Things Together in Buenos Aires

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• Soldiers in the Cathedral and the Blind Man’s Serenade: A Tale of Two Churches

  Much of my life has been spent in search of the perfect church. There is no such thing, of course, but even so, I have come quite close three times: Once was in Greece, with its byzantine basilicas designed to transport the worshiper straight to heaven. Another time was in Mexico, with its five or…

• Cooking the Poncho and Other Misadventures in Spanish

  Floundering About in Spanish So here I am in Argentina, floundering about in Spanish. I knew this would happen. It is a Spanish-speaking country, after all. Still, it is one thing to know a thing and another to plunge into the reality of that thing. And the reality of the thing is that I have…

• Feral Cat and Farm Dog Move to Argentina: A Drama in Three Acts

  Prologue: I glance across the room, and there is Norman, sitting beside his food bowl in a hinty kind of way. He has come a long way from that industrial estate in South Auckland where I rescued him some seven years ago—a kitten so feral he spent the first two weeks hiding under the bed.…