I clearly haven’t been changing enough nappies since our daughter, Inês, was born a couple of months ago as I only noticed what I am about to mention a week or ten days ago. Through my mother’s side of the family (the Salvadorian side) many of the women (but not all…it sometimes jumps generations) are […]

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It was the Friday before Carnival break, this last February, and on this day the school where I teach  permitted the kids to come in to classes out of uniform. As expected, there was a high tide of hoodies, tight jeans, expensive garish trainers and silly-looking headgear worn at self-conscious angles on the part of […]

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