Festa Junina a Brazilian Fall Festival
We were walking the streets of Rio de Janeiro yesterday when my daughter piped up "Hey, it's Festa Junina!" I shook my head and tolld [...]
We were walking the streets of Rio de Janeiro yesterday when my daughter piped up "Hey, it's Festa Junina!" I shook my head and tolld [...]
At the summer games this year in Rio de Janeiro, fans of 41 different sports will have a chance to watch competition between the best [...]
Today's recommendation for MKB's Read Around the World Series is an illustrated excerpt from one of Brazil's most famous children's author, Monteiro Lobato.
There's so much bad news coming out of Brazil lately. The economy is still in tatters. The president is impeached. The interim president is according [...]
I'm currently obsessed with an idea for a historical fiction novel and have spent the last week devouring books on colonial Brazil. (I know you're [...]
A week ago, Brazil's House of Deputies voted 367 to 137 to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. The vote lasted five hours and involved a lot [...]
It's been more than difficult finding time to write this post. My husband is away on a networking trip while Kiddo's in the middle of [...]
The wind gusted by, and my nose was numb by the time we crossed from the parking lot and entered the Visitor's Center at the [...]
Having spent the majority of my adult life outside of the United States (mostly in small, homogeneous cities), I've gotten used to being the subject [...]