Combat Classroom Headaches with Healthy Snacks
There is a particular type of throbbing migraine that is unique to individuals who teach English to non-native speakers. If you’ve had the experience of attempting to extract meaning from a garbled line of English where the adjectives are out of order, the sentence has six different verb tenses, and every single word is misspelled, …
Taco Bell Opens in Peru
At last, Peru is a first-world country. I’d like to take a moment to congratulate Peru on its meteoric rise to the top of the world. It took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. But here we are. Peru has made it! Taco Bell is here. I say this because on the 17th of …
Solo Bombed Because of Last Jedi
The narrative fixing that’s been going on with the Disney Star Wars movies is beyond belief. As you probably know, Memorial day weekend marked the release of the 4th Disney Star Wars flick: Solo. For the last few months, there have been articles floating about how Disney was “preparing itself” for Solo to bomb. From …
Expats Offended By Complimenting Peru?-Why?
The expat community is already a strange breed. First of all, they insist on calling themselves “expats” instead of “immigrants,” even though they are immigrants. Also, in a place like Peru, that is pretty lax on its immigration, a lot of these expats are in the country illegally. I remember meeting a guy who had …
Steps Before Making The Big Move To Lima
The Necessary Steps Before Making The Big Move To Lima Good news – there’s never been a better time to move to Lima. Crime remains low and quality of life is rising. Plus, according to city comparison tool Numbeo, Lima cost of living index is 41.61 – less than that of New York, and comparable to iconic …
Peru Superior to the USA in Language Tolerance
The most recent example of a US language bigot going viral for a racist tirade against people who dare to indulge their Constitutional right to speak a foreign language on US soil, is that of New York lawyer Aaron Schlossberg. By now, most people have seen the video of the man becoming incensed because several …
Machu Picchu as a Sober Travel Destination
A few years ago I lead a Machu Picchu tour with a friend of mine that had been sober for several decades. He was a polite, elderly man and he had been sober for so long that he no longer had any compulsion whatsoever to drink. Our trip consisted of a lot of physical activity …
Lima Live Entertainment
In my days of being stationed in Lima, I had a friend whose girlfriend networked with the Lima improvisational comedy community. Every now and then she’d drag us kicking and screaming to one of their shows, which would be invariably terrible. Now, this girl was problematic anyway. She was of the type that simply didn’t …
Fort Lauderdale as a Gateway to South America
During the peak of my nomad days, I was always on the lookout for inexpensive tickets from the United States to South America. I’ve always though the idea of getting frequent flyer miles was something of a scam, and, instead, elected to always purchase the least expensive ticket I could find. After a while, you …
Not Worthy of Study: The Catastrophic Arrogance of the Literary Community
A story I tell often comes from when I was selected to present at the Chippewa Valley Book Festival for my Rhemalda Publishing release, ‘Beyond Birkie Fever‘. This was a fairly prestigious event, I was paid a fee to go and speak, and was invited to attend several presentations, and was a featured guest at …
Andrew P Weston Reviews ‘The Literate Thief’
One of the rules of publishing is that you’re not supposed to respond to reviews. However, I think that rule is idiotic and I do things my own way, so here goes. Besides, the rule is generally meant for when you receive a negative review, and the glowing 5 start treatment I just got from …
Machine Guns Aren’t Used in Mass Shootings
Machine Guns and Mass Shootings I have children in school who are 7 and 5 years old. On several occasions I’ve received emails from their school district about “incidents” involving suspicious characters or the possibility of illegal behavior. We’ve all hoped that making the choice to live in Northern Wisconsin would free us of experiencing …
