Varsity Letter
While clearing out some old shoe boxes, I found some memories of a more athletic me. I was awarded my varsity letter in 9th grade for Swimming at the American School of the Hague, 1993.
A Great Cover Song
One of my favorite covers, of one of my favorite songs. Thank you St. Vincent (Annie Erin Clark). Thank you Beck. Thank you INXS.
Surfing in El Salvador
“20 point breaks all within a 3 hour drive.”
Sorting Coffee
In many areas of the bean belt / coffee belt, people are hard at work sorting the right beans, at the right time, to make your coffee just the way you like it. (Picture: Finca Santa Maria, Quetzaltepe, San Salvador, El Salvador)
What’s Inside Coffee?
Dimethyl disulfide, “…it’s one of the compounds that gives human feces its odor.”
San Salvador in the 1940s and 50s
I found these two wonderful, slient film clips depicting San Salvador in 1946 and 1958, from the Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. A time before urban sprawl destroyed the coffee farms that almost encircled the city; a time before the civil war erected walls and barbed wire …