During my childhood it was traditional to go every year to visit my uncle, the brother of my mother, at his house in Valparaiso. My uncle had married his wife Olga when I was 2 years old. I still remember hiding under the long train of her beautiful white dress after the ceremony when they […]
They were very different times in Chile. Right after the military coup, I had moved to Santiago to my parent’s house located on a street that ended at the back door of the Carabineros de Chile School (Policemen School of Chile). I have escaped from Antofagasta in the North of Chile, after resigning my position […]
I read for the nth time about the woman touching Jesus’ tallit and being healed. This time I had a totally unexpected reaction. I realized that Jesus for her was the only hope left. She had tried everything. Spent all she had. She had followed the law by not being in public, because that also […]
When the translation project coordinator and I arrived at the Church in Agato, Ecuador, we saw a group of women led by one other woman. All were wearing their traditional blue clothes and golden necklaces. I have seen some of the women at the morning market. We went down the stairs to a small room. […]
In Florida, I could see the aninhgas drying their wings in the sun after a good dive in the lake in front of my apartment. I miss that. Birds know how to be thankful and praise God. Almost anywhere you can see the grackles at the parking lots of stores that have food, waiting for […]
(Award-winning work at the Literary Academy, about two modern characters that represent the tendencies of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Written when I was 15 years old when I was in the equivalent to 11th grade of high school.) (“The golden dawn is mine” sentence comes form a poem from Ruben Dario, famous poet from […]
A number of years ago, we needed to discover ways to expedite training and economize on travel time. One common technique was to buy all the software needed for Bible Translation here in the States and load it on a hard drive. The hard drive was brought to the field and carefully installed into a […]
My first trip out of the U.S. in my work with United Bible Societies was to Curacao. The Bible Society of Curacao was translating the Bible into the beautiful local language Papiamentu. Papiamentu is based in Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French. It also has some Arawak Indian and African influences. Papiamentu is one of […]
One of the most interesting lessons I have ever learned was during a trip to Vermont by car from Albany, New York. The translator consultant lived in Albany. He needed to have computer training to help people with the translation of an indigenous language in Guatemala. These people had escaped from political persecution and now […]
General De Gaulle, then President of France, visited Chile between September 29 and October 2nd of 1964. He was the first French President to visit Chile. De Gaulle and his wife traveled by sea on the Colbert cruiser. The Croiseur Colbert C611, an anti air cruiser, was the official sea transport of General Charles de […]
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