It is one of those Facebook memes: travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer. All the studies on happiness suggest that you get more of …
Notes from Lisbon: Small Bills: The Eurocrisis and the Gelato Crisis
Before I flew to Lisbon, Portugal, I exchanged dollars for euros and held, for the first time, the crisp bright paper money – blue twenties, deep pink tens, green fives, …
Notes from Lisbon: Beautiful Pieces
Every building, basically, is four walls and a ceiling—a truth so common it doesn’t get noticed. Once in a while you get a look at what’s inside a wall, the …
Notes from Lisbon: Where Improving Relationships gets a Piece of the Public Works Budget
The year before I was born, 1974, Portugal saw the Carnation Revolution. The dictatorship masterminded by Antonio Salazar (dead since 1970) finally fell, and democracy rolled in after a no-shots-fired …
Notes from Lisbon: Earthquake Enlightenment
On November first in the year of our Lord 1755, All Saints Day fell upon Sunday, and devout Catholics across Lisbon walked to church for worship services that would end …
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