Tomorrow in Colombia is Love and Friendship Day, a homegrown version of Valentine's Day that includes platonic friends just as much as r...

With the close of the school year two weeks ago came the close of four years in Colombia: an era of discovery and disappointment, growth and...

So, I was blind-sided by a ridiculous amount of paperwork and test grading over the last couple of weeks, which reduced my reading time to n...

Four years ago, I first visited Colombia at the behest of the friend of a friend who worked as the academic director at a bi-cultural langua...

Carnaval de Barranquilla , February 2009 One of the traditions of Carnival here in Colombia is the throwing of corn starch and water on unsu...

This lil fella belonged to a locksmith in the Soledad neighborhood of Bogotá. While I was waiting for some keys to be cut, he sat down in t...

I've been in Colombia for almost four years now, since the summer of 2005, when I took a job as an eager and idealistic (yeah, right) En...