Last week I got into a conversation with my neighbor Mary, over the fence.   Since she has a new baby (a surprise) along with her 11 year old daughter, we talked about child-raising.  Oh, it’s old hat for me, she says.  I took care of my brothers since I was very young.  I was 13 [...]

Colonia Quezaltepeque in Santa Tecla has been without water since the weekend and it’s Thursday now.  A video clip today on Channel 33 (Canal 33) shows people waiting in line with buckets and containers of all sizes to bring home.  Some waited in line for 3 hours.  A woman in line with a small bucket [...]

During my travels last Friday to both Santa Tecla, and Miramonte, a neighborhood in San Salvador, I heard complaints in passing conversations that there was no water.   Later on I learned why:  Vandals damaged critical parts of a metallic structure that supports a main water pipe 48 inches in diameter.    The act occurred some time [...]

The woman who lives on the other side the fence came by to ask last night if she could “buy” water from us.  I remembered the owner’s comments when we moved in about how they “gifted” water to the neighbors next door and “below” us (which I presumed last night, was her).   “Let me know [...]

The Morning Music It’s another typical morning in Jicaron City, El Salvador.  At 25 minutes to 6am, I’ve begun to wake up, having fallen asleep early the night before.  I slept well, so the thumping sound drumming out the neighbor’s stereo one house over and up the hill is fortunately, less troublesome than it would [...]