i live in massachusetts now

In case you couldn’t tell from the “Where in the World is LVE” feature, I’ve moved. Again. I live in Massachusetts now. I got a publishing job in Boston and I love it.

I have been here for a little over a month and have recently moved into an adorable little studio apartment near Porter Square in Cambridge. Cambridge is everything that Houston is not. And I don’t mean that as a slight to either city – they’re just so different. I might as well be in a different country.

That isn’t to say I haven’t found elements of the familiar since I’ve moved here. A couple of weeks into my new life here, my cousin’s in New Hampshire home lost power. Now, I know all about loosing power. Hurricanes have been known to wipe out power for a few days in the Gulf Coast. But this isn't the same; Ice storms are the culprit here. Ice storms?! I can’t seem to escape it; I’m like a magnet for natural disasters. Great.

That’s another thing. Family. My mom is from New Hampshire and her sister lives there. My move means that I’m close to several cousins, a grandmother and an aunt and uncle. They can help me through the culture shock.

And finally, moving to Boston has reunited me with an old friend. Greta and I met when she moved in next door as Carmen’s new homestay. Gloria and Carmen were the amazing sisters that we lived with during our time in Seville. The four of us would sit in front of the television to watch “¡Mira quién baila!”. Gloria would be shouting into the phone at her friend Pepa about what Paco Pepe’s wife did today, Carmen would be filing her nails and telling us stories about when they were girls - stories we'd heard a thousand times before. Greta and I would bond over our time with the incomparable Angulo-Fraile sisters.*

So, on top of everything, I’ve found a little bit of Seville in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Who would have thought?

In any case, I have a feeling I’m going to like it here.




* I was looking for posts that I wrote about these two amazing sisters and I am sad to admit that there are so few. I should have been writing about them all the time! They were so larger-than-life and wonderful. A great wealth of writing material there. Well, I'll write about them one day...