Crystal, Clearly

Tag: Ponta Delgada

  • Bom Apetite

    Bom Apetite

    If I had it all to do again I would have started a cheese diary on my first day in… Read more.

  • Don’t Go Too Fast, but I Go Pretty Far

    Don’t Go Too Fast, but I Go Pretty Far

    There wasn’t any hour that the Metro, or Lisbon in general, felt unsafe to me as a woman traveling alone.… Read more.

  • Hear Me Roar

    Hear Me Roar

    There is a sensuality in Correia’s writing that might give the impression that women are capable of enjoying sex. This… Read more.

  • Unimaginable

    Unimaginable

    Sometimes, just when I think things can’t get any darker, they very much do. I was on a work phone… Read more.

  • Nevermind

    Nevermind

    These connections– the meaning of Nirvana, these men who ended their own suffering with guns, the dead men I don’t… Read more.

  • Big Feelings

    Big Feelings

    I’m going to pick the Etta Jameses and the Chavela Vargases and any other artist who can put their feelings… Read more.

  • Bom Dia!

    Bom Dia!

    It had become my neighborhood, and I was overjoyed to participate in my new community, even if that was mostly… Read more.

  • The Rooster

    The Rooster

    I was there long enough and involved enough, that I can’t help but feel some affiliation- like Portugal is partly… Read more.

  • A New World Woman in an Old World Town

    A New World Woman in an Old World Town

    If, as Billy Joel says, “Los Angelenos all come from somewhere,” the Azores are the bookend, a place where everybody… Read more.

  • Something a Lot Like Home

    Something a Lot Like Home

    It is strange the extent to which when I am at home I daydream constantly about traveling and when I… Read more.