Expat Life

Editor’s note: Writers on Writers in an on-going series in which Cuenca expat writers interview each other about their their work. Writers’ Q&A (Part 1): Abby Osman asks Frances A. Hogg about her writing. Franny, most gringos know you as an author because of What’s Cookin’, Cuenca?, a cooking and shopping guide, but now your...

Over the top of the school’s locked gate, tumultuous sounds of children shouting and laughing spilled out then up and down the dusty rock-strewn road as I pressed the buzzer for the fourth time. “I hear Jhon laughing,” I told Edie. The blaze of a late morning Andean sun sent heat waves rippling off the...

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...

There are few conditions that scream with such volume or shrill insistence as being employed in the information media business. There are deadlines to meet and important stories that need telling, right now. Urgency becomes common. Common becomes rare. Rare becomes tomorrow’s headline. So, the offer to work with CuencaHighLife, and Cuenca Dispatch, could not...

By Robert Bradley My favorite haunt, Casa Azul Galeria Cafe, reopened last week. What a relief! I love dropping in for early morning cafe con leche and greeting the day with my neighbors while sharing a few minutes before the calendar crowds us into little boxes of commitments and the insistence of daily chores. I...

By Markku Sario If you go up Luis Cordero to where it crosses Las Americas, the name of the street changes to Abelardo J. Andrade.  One block further, there is a traffic light at a 5-way intersection. Take a hard right at the light onto Cumana. The road widens dramatically for half a block and...

Editor’s note: In February, Cuenca expats Edd and Cynthia Staton launched the first of three books about their decision to move to Ecuador and the frantic rush leading up to their departure from the U.S. Today, they discuss the second volume in the series, “Letting Go.” To read their conversation about the first book, click here....