A Random Encounter with a Profound Impact

I’ve already posted about my favorite random encounter (in response to the exact same prompt, I believe), and while I have many others that I would enjoy recounting, I thought I’d share one of my dad’s instead. This is a story I published on Medium back in the day, so you might have already readContinue reading “A Random Encounter with a Profound Impact”

Fishing for Friends

It was actually two strangers: a 70 something-year-old man from Chile and a 14-year-old local (Santander) boy. I was there for the summer, enrolled at the Universidad de Cantabria to further my acquaintance with the Spanish language and culture. The year was 2004, a lifetime ago. I was 27 years old, about to start aContinue reading “Fishing for Friends”