No Borders
A Journalist's Search for Home
Chapter One
My House
I wanted only to try to live in accordance with the promptings that came from my true self Why was that so very difficult?
- Herman Hesse
The past is indestructible.
- Jorge Luis Borges
"What do you dream about?" journalist Dennis Farney asked me. "I dream about my house," I replied, "my house in Mexico." Farney's front-page article for the Wall Street Journal was published prior to the 2000 presidential elections, and it introduced me to many non-Spanish-speaking Americans who would otherwise never have heard of me. The article, however, did not include my response about my house. Fortunately, politics - not my dreams - dominated the country.
Unlike my days, which are filled with news of wars, violence, assassinations and coup d'états, and the constant traveling and stressful, unstructured schedules, my dreams are almost boring. They are my refuge. Th ... read full excerpt from No Borders ebook