Diego Echavarría has practiced real estate and immigration law in Malaga and throughout Andalusia for 20 years. I chatted with him via Zoom to learn the ins and outs of home buying in Spain for foreigners and why a real estate attorney is an absolute must. Here is a bit of what he had to […]
How Millennials Will Save Our Asses
They are said to be entitled, excessively needy and consummately lazy. They believe they are always deserving of a reward, an A, a trophy. They are slow to grow up and in no hurry to move along. They are in unprecedented debt and facing world issues that could be the end of us all – […]
22 Things the World Wouldn’t Have Without Muslims
While small-minded media focuses on an infinitesimally small portion of psychopaths claiming to be Muslim, they ignoring how much better, how much more enriched all of our lives are because of the Muslim community and history. Here are just 22 such examples of what the world would be missing without Muslims: Toothbrushes Degree granting universities Kareem […]
What to Think About if You are Thinking About Having Kids
When, I was 15, I made a dinner time announcement to my family: “I will never have kids.” It was, in my teenage opinion, an utterly blockheaded idea. Up to fifteen, I spent a decent chunk of time babysitting – giving me crystal clear insight into approximately .3% of what raising a child entailed. And although […]
How I Use My Blog to Get Free Travel, Hotels, Ski and Festival Passes and More
How exactly do you say, “Sooooo I have this blog, you have a festival and I want to attend – want to swap blogging for free passes?” I was stumped. I got the courage to ask a fellow blogger, and I trialed and errored it and this is the email I settled upon to successfully […]
My Catalan Husband Calls Beyonce’s Hubby ‘Jay-Zed’ (and His Other Perspectives as a Foreigner Living in the U.S.)
Even without living as a foreigner in the U.S., my husband David has his own, very David, interpretation of the world. When you combine that WITH living in the U.S., all kinds of things shoot out of his mouth. A few examples: “It is either brains or it is muscles, but it is rarely […]