Rio Gringa

When I’m doing research and unexpectedly come across one of my old pieces

When I saw that Yahoo is buying Tumblr

…here’s to hoping they don’t actually touch the website.

What a lot of days at work are like

When a gringo moves to Brazil

Teaching newbies the style guide

When I get up at the crack of dawn, cover a conference at the State Department, spend the afternoon writing up the conference, and then spend nearly 12 hours on 5 modes of transportation to go away for a long weekend

When a Brazilian was chosen over a Mexican to become the new head of the WTO, Mexico was like -

When I get deeply into writing a piece and only later remember that I forgot to eat a meal

Attempting to speak any foreign language other than Portuguese or Spanish

When the Huffington Post published “8 Reasons Brazilians Totally Count As Latino”