Lately my little apartment in Madrid has been a bit like Grand Central Station. My sister Janet and her husband Montie arrived a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve enjoyed every moment I got to spend with them during their vacation in Spain as well as the video chats with their two darling girls who […]
On my recent 5-day trip to Seville, I visited 4 archives and a library. That’s a rather high number, but I was doing some targeted searches for documents as well as familiarizing myself with the archives. I will be making another trip down to Seville this upcoming month. My routine was fairly regular: Every morning, […]
Mary arrived in Seville and explored a little. Being back after 13 years made her feel a bit nostalgic.
I started the draft of this blog post on January 21st, but it has taken me awhile to come back and finish it. The inauguration of Barack Obama had a rather substantial impact on me, and so… As myriad TV stations, online news sites and newspapers state, January 20, 2009, is a historic day. The […]
Alcaçar de Brioga is not a place that you will find on the typical map of Spain. It is a collection of people in various regions of Spain who participate in the Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA). What is the SCA? My friends and family know a little about the SCA, but for those that […]