Mychildhood nanny, Paulina, is one of my favorite people ever. Those who did not grow up in Latin America as I did might not know just how important one’s nanny can be.
I hope the following lessons can help illustrate it.
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Lessons in Writing from My Literary Grandmother
My grandmother is one of the few geniuses I know.
Growing up, I knew she had written books, I knew she had earned a graduate degree in Spanish Literature with a full scholarship at the University of Chicago’s prestigious Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, I knew she was an expert in the poetry, theater, and prose of the Spanish Golden Age, and I knew she was a distinguished tenured professor at the University of Panama.
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Lessons in Learning from Professor Anders Ericsson
Lessons from Travel—Volume I
I try not to date what I write, but I must mention that I’m writing this in the year 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, which people in the future will call by the same name I first used to refer to the 1918 H1N1 pandemic: “There was a pandemic?”¹
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