Tia Sonia

I think the catch on finding home away from home when your gone for a while is finding family. Or at least those that you would consider such. In Nica I have this neighbor, this super transient neighbor but hey...! She randomly breaks out into dance as she walks, at times to her detriment she speaks her mind, she is knocking on 80 but considers a walk across town "muy cerca", she freely offers advice and comes over unannounced on a regular basis to just about every house on the street. At 78 she still considers herself young and thus sees her responsibility to visit all the abuelitas and make sure they are getting along fine. Last night she invited my volunteers to go out with her this morning at 7:30 to participate in a Sunday morning breakfast that she sponsors for the huelepega street kids. Huelepega is a word that refers to the group of kids that live on the streets and always have a bottle of the glue that cobblers use in making shoes. There method of mitigating hunger ,and reality I suppose, is by constantly having their nose plugged into that bottle. She calls them her kids and every time she is in town she brings them new clothes and at least one weekly meal. She is nothing shy of freaking fantastic. Ojala que se me pegue un poco de esa energia de la ,mi, Tia Sonia!

Gran Tocino ;)

I've got great news. Wait, it's better than that. It's a stellar answer. An answer to what I suspect has been a question in the hearts and minds of many of you -us- for quite some time. 4 months 3 days, 4 flights, 2374 miles, and 4 defrosting of the fridge. That, my dear friends, is AT LEAST how long a pack of unopened bacon will last before going wrong.