feria de abril

Going to the Fair

by kim on August 19, 2010Share this post:

County fairs are in full swing around the Midwest about now, and they are reminding me of the Feria de Abril in Seville. The two have similar origins….Seville’s spring fair has been going on since 1847, when it started as an agricultural and cattle trading event. The livestock is mostly gone today, except for horses [...]

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When Life Imitates Art, or The Jinx of Lost Luggage

by kim on May 4, 2010Share this post:

As I was writing a particular scene in my novel a couple of months ago, I suspected I was tempting fate. In that scene the main character, a travel writer named Grace, loses her luggage on the way to Mexico. Lucky for me I had never had that experience myself, but I’ve watched in sympathy–and [...]

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