Expat Life
Contrary to an apparently widespread belief back in the U.S. – and especially, it sometimes seems, among certain lawmakers in Washington – most American expats are not rich, and don’t live abroad in order to avoid their U.S. tax obligations, a new survey has found. Just 33% of some 602 American expats living in 47...
By Jackie Laughlin Ecuador: Home of the bucket-list-worthy Galapagos islands, a volcanic archipelago visited by nearly 200,000 tourists per year, where Charles Darwin famously collected his data to form his theory of evolution. That’s Ecuador, right? Not exactly. The Galapagos only makes up one quarter of what Ecuador refers to as its “Four Worlds.” Let’s...
By Andrea Navarro San Miguel de Allende oozes old Mexico charm. There are the cobblestone streets, the colonial-era buildings and wrought-iron balconies, the neo-Gothic steeples soaring high above the pink-sandstone church anchoring a corner of the main plaza. Travel and Leisure magazine has twice named it the best city in the world, a ratification of how...
By Jeff Salz Storytelling is the most ancient form of human communication. According to science, it remains the most effective. Ever notice how facts, data, ideas, and opinions all bounce off you, roll away and disappear while a good story (or even a well-told bad joke) can haunt you forever? Such is the power of...
By Elizabeth Kiefer What does it mean to sit like a man? If you live in a city with a subway, your mind might leap to the scourge of “manspreading,” in which men sit with their legs wide apart, taking up more than one seat. But Barbara Bergin, an orthopedic surgeon in Austin, believes sitting like...
Photos and text by Bartley D’Alfonso One of the highlights of Sunday’s celebration of the 20th anniversary of Cuenca being named a World Heritage site by UNESCO, was the morning Heritage Walk, or Caminato por El Patrimonio. Sponsored by Mayor Pedro Palacios and the Museum Casa del Sombrero, in celebration of Cuenca’s famous Panama hat...
The food is set out moments before the first guests arrive. Balloons are tied to armchairs or left to tremble on the ground, some high on helium, others simply filled with hot air. The mood will soon turn from anxious to boisterous; guests are arriving in carriages, and on foot, embracing with kisses and an almost...
USAmericans pride themselves on planning ahead. That’s why they start Christmas shopping the day after Halloween. Shopping, of course, is one of our inalienable rights, guaranteed by the Constitution along with the right to pack more horsepower, firepower, and body mass per capita than any other nation on earth. We celebrate these liberties on “Black...
By Bobette Jones We in Cuenca are extremely fortunate to have free access to world-class classical music. The Cuenca Symphony Orchestra (OSC), under the direction of Maestro Michael Meissner, performs regularly at numerous sites, including the Old Cathedral, Teatro Pumapungo, and Teatro Carlos Cueva Tamariz (University of Cuenca). Much to the surprise — and delight...
Text and photos by Jeremiah Reardon Brrr! When I stepped off the bus in the Cajas Mountains this past September, I freaked! I couldn’t believe how cold it felt. It was the coldest I’d been in the dozen times over three years I’d hiked in the Andes. I just wanna get back to Cuenca, I...
The National Institutes of Health: News In Health November 2019 Have you ever had to get an X-ray, MRI, or other medical scan? Do you know what these tests involve? Or what they can do? Medical scans help doctors diagnose everything from head trauma to foot pain. There are many different types of imaging technologies....
As of November 17, the 321st day of the year, there have been 369 mass shootings in the U.S. That works out to more than one a day. It has happened so many times now that the only salve offered for a recent mass shooting at a Southern California high school, which left two students...
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