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… meanwhile… update from mid December 2022

15 December, 2022 (04:15) | Living in Europe | By: admin

Alot has happened. We made it back to Spain in early May 2020 after four purgatorial months. We bought a car, got parking in the plaza below us, sold Gracia, bought a house in the protected mountain biosphere of Montseny (about 1 1/2 hours from our beach pad), my dog Quixote died and now I […]

Spring 2020 – expat blues in the time of Covid 19 quarantine lockdowns – written from L.A. winter 2020.

15 December, 2022 (03:27) | Living in Europe | By: admin

Blog JANUARY 2019 17 fly here to L.A.
22 = go to writers club
5:00 date with Marcus to meet a young curator and dinner later
25 lydia lunch
26 – Marcus gender reveal performance
31 – Mark goes to visit Heather (his mom) for 5 days FEBRUARY 5th – Art opening at the Broad
6-  Marley exhibit with Ivy
8 Mark […]

2018 – The burgeoning year of Guarro Martinez

19 January, 2019 (10:22) | Living in Europe | By: admin

After I returned from my Skanksters reunion, Mark and I decided to start a rock band, which we named Guarro Martinez. In Spanish the word Guarro means a very rude or dirty person of low class, what we in America call white trash. Martinez is the name of the street in Gracia where we all […]