Michael Soares

I’ve seen a lot lately about more brick-and-mortar stores closing in the United States.  Today, The Bon-Ton Stores, after filing for bankruptcy in January, announced it is heading into liquidation.  For those who don’t know, the 160 year-old company has 260 stores in 24 states. They will officially close the stores in 10 to 12...
Okay, so it’s been a while since I took this column into politics.   But I have no choice but to vent today.  Because I’ve had enough. Never in my life did I expect to see the chaos that was unleashed this past week in New York (and by association, in Washington, D.C.).  The FBI actually...
I’m sitting here writing my column today laid up in bed. I’ve been here off and on for most of the last 12 days. Some of you know I’ve got a long history of lower-back problems. To be more specific, I have what’s called “sacroilliac dysfunction.” Meaning my sacroilliac (SI) joint “slips” out of alignment....
Well, as some of you know, CuencaHighLife.com was down for a few days last week.  We had a big problem with our hosting company.  They said we had a code problem that was causing the issue.  We called BS on that because we hadn’t changed it from the day before when it was running great....
My mother’s moving soon. Before my next column. So I need to say what I need to say here this week. I’m proud of her. Very proud. She’s been struggling for the last couple of years since my father died. They had been together for over 50 years and even though he hadn’t been healthy...
I got up with the sunrise.  I didn’t do it on purpose.  But, the noise of some parrots that live in the trees across the street from us left me no choice. The little flock (I think that’s what you call a group of parrots) numbers about eight birds. They really are beautiful.  But lately,...
I love Calvin and Hobbes.  Bill Watterson is a genius who managed to take the thoughts out of my head (and countless others’) and put them to paper in a way that almost everyone could laugh at. What some people may not know is that he named the strip after John Calvin, of Protestant reformation...
The other morning I woke up badly in need of coffee.  It had been a long night of barking dogs in Yunguilla (part of the occasional “joy” of having a house in the country). I stumbled out to the kitchen and prepared a 6-cup batch of Joe, and went and turned on the shower, figuring...
It’s always interesting to wake up and read the comments that this column generates.  I know that some of you hate what I write; you’ve made that quite clear in your posts.  I find it intriguing to see what names or labels you want to give me.  And the personal hate you lay at my...
“It’s not a third-world country!” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told that to my mother and some of my friends back in the US when they question how I could live in Ecuador. My mother has no excuse, she’s been here.  But to her, there was poverty everywhere and the living conditions...
Sometimes we forget how important our old friends are to us. We take the relationships for granted and over time it just seems that we expect their friendship, as if it’s owed to us. But it’s not. Recently, Codie and I got to enjoy a wonderful evening with two old friend that we had not...
Well, a new year is upon us and with it comes a new chance for all of us to be better people than we were in 2017. New Year’s resolutions. We all have them, we all break some and we all achieve some. Some of them we make over every year. I’m going to go...

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Week of March 24

“They are pressuring me to resign so they can remove me from office,” denounced Verónica Abad, Vice President of the Republic.

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Ecuador Navigates Economic Challenges with IMF Agreement Looming.

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“Since when does thinking differently mean being a traitor?” Pierina Correa questions in reference to the Tourism Law.

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