Acknowledgements This book is just a collection of “cuentos”, stories and anecdotes I went through in my 80 something years of life. I started writing them in 2014. This is the way I remember them. It is not written in perfect or academic English. This is the way I speak in English. When I was […]
In 1992 United Bible Societies seconded me to work with Project 95 at SIL International, an institution affiliated with Wycliffe Bible Translators. I worked as an Instructional Designer, finding appropriate software and methods to develop support. During this time, I also took and helped teach many courses given by Dr. Evelyn Davis. She had an […]
For a long time, Karelin and I wanted to navigate on the Great Lakes. There was a company that offered some cruises, but it did not cover all five of the lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario, plus little Lake St. Clair between Lakes Erie and Huran. Then Viking Cruises offered a quite comprehensive […]
So far, Karelin and I have been in thirty-nine of the fifty states in United States plus Washington, DC and Puerto Rico. Most of these we have done either by car or by bus but some also by cruises. We are only missing Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico (we already […]
Well, in 2013 we had already done the Panama Canal, halfway only, from the Caribbean side. We had not done it from one ocean to the other. We had to do it the whole way! Besides, there were several countries in Central America we had not seen yet. At that time, I had only been […]
In February 2011, we decided to see the northeastern part of United States and Canada. So, we planned to take a cruise. The ship this time was the MS Maasdam, from Holland America. The dates were from May 14 to 21 and from Boston, Massachusetts, to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We had a missionary friend who […]
At the end of 2013, we decided to travel to see the famous Galapagos Island in Ecuador and the Machu Picchu ruins in Peru. We selected Go Ahead Tours. We had already done a tour to Australia and New Zealand with them in 2011, and we were pleased with the experience. The trip to Ecuador […]
It has been amazing to explore Europe mostly by cruises, but we also took a “Grand tour of France” by bus with Cosmos. The following are my notes on our trips and cruises across the pond. They are incredibly detailed, and you will find many names of places that you might not care about, but […]
Working at the Americas Branch of United Bible Societies was interesting. All people at that office except one, from Canada, were from different “Spanish” speaking countries. We were people from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Cuba. When occasionally we were together at the lunchroom our dialogue was always interrupted with, “What […]
In Chile we use the expression “When the potatoes burn” meaning when the pressure is on or when the moment of decision comes. I knew that I was at that point when I finished my PhD. After the military coup in Chile, I became so angry that I dedicated my life to improving myself according […]
An Ear by Mistake 
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