My Uruguay

 ATA Source & Chronicle
I spent my formative years in Montevideo, and write about those days and other experiences in a series of vignettes that are published as a monthly column in the newsletter of the British Society of Uruguay. 



I spend most of my time working with words, and write about that experience in essays and articles published in translation and language-oriented magazines.
On The Canals

Fray Bentos
My Landlady
Rich or Poor?
The Concierto de Aranjuez
Mayday!
Fear of Falling
An Anchor For Our Age
Ten Pound Poms
Hobby & Oggie
A Bumpy Ride
English Time
The King of Tango
One Hundred Years of Muriel
Translator on the Roof
Unforgettable
The Golden Egg
Fades
The Walk
The Carnival
Albóndigas
Cher Ami
The Gift of Friendship
In Flanders Fields
Golden Goals
Dirty Laundry
The Great Unknown
Running with the Fox
Beyond the Footlights
High School Sweethearts
In The Wet
St. John's Wood
The Colimba
Talking Beans
A Name by Any Other Name
Gringo!
Long Layover Lunches
Grace Under Pressure
Memories of La Mancha
Slingshot Cowboy
Piper Bill Millin
Remembrance of Times Past
Just Passing Through
Belgrano Deutsch
Towards the Light
Add Arabic and Simmer
My Mother Tongue
The Magician
Letting Go
La Siesta
The Waltz
Waltzing Matilda
Under the Pines
The Tablado
Earthquake!
The Brick Palace
Buster & Pam
When a Treat Became a Tradition
The Royal Mail
Hot Air Rises
The Casablanca
On Location
Music in the Air
Bloomers
Pixie's Farewell
Free Lunch 
Party Line
A Proper Englishman
The Fountain of Youth
The Sounds of Uruguay
Dinner and a Movie
Tea Time
The Caledonian Ball
On the Edge
The Centre
UFOs
Spanglish
Toro!
A Night on the Town 
A Few Close Friends
It Could Have Happened Like That
New Year's Eve
Poppy Day
Hurricane!    
The Extras
Brotherly Love
Old Tennis Shoes
Sports Day    
My Brother and I
Saying Goodbye  
Boys Like Us 
What is Love?
The Best of Both Worlds
When a Treat Became a Tradition
The Fledgling 
The Accountant 
Hat Party 
Back to Belgrano
The Survivor
The Night Boat
To Have and To Hold
The Plaza Independencia
The Pocitos School
Family Picnics
Subtitled Saturday Night
Alpargatas
Canillita
Boarding House Boys
The Battle of the River Plate
The YPF
Long Pants
Take Five
Got a Light?
A Black Tie Affair
Home Sweet Homesick
Nice Hat
Lost and Found
Unforgettable
Wake Up!
Riding the Buses
The Tablado
The Fountain of Youth
The Ties of Freedom
All Your Christmases
The Fine Four Marbles
Coming Home to Roost
Cotton Candy
The Players
Che inglés
Sounds of Uruguay

What Would I Do?
Opera Translation OWOW
OWOW Fontenelle
Add Arabic and Simmer (Source)
OWOW Maurine McLean
OWOW B Nela
John Ayto Lexicographer
Remembrance of Times Past
OWOW (Mike Dillinger)  
Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize
OWOW (Lankhof)
OWOW (Radd Ehrman, philologist)
Mafalda
Our World of Words (Visson)
Our World of Words (Goepfert)
The Raggle Taggle Gypsies
Our World of Words (Karsch)
The Rosetta Stone
Our World of Words (Jimenez-Crespo)
Our World of Words (Stolp)
A Translator's Room
Memories of La Mancha
Strangers on a Plane (Source)       
A Name By Any Other Name (Chronicle)   
A Name By Any Other Name (Source)
100 Years of Literature (Source)   
Unique Voices & Tricky Choices (Chronicle)   
Unique Voices & Tricky Choices (Source)   
Origins of the Latin Alphabet (Chronicle)
Origins of the Latin Alphabet (Source)
The University of Life (Chronicle)
The University of Life (Source)
Two Translators with a Swedish Tattoo (Chronicle)
Two Translators with a Swedish Tattoo (Source)
Carlos Fuentes: The Writer and his Translators (Chronicle)
Carlos Fuentes: The Writer and his Translators (Source)
Add Arabic and Simmer for Eight Centuries (Chronicle)
Deadlines (Chronicle)
Deadlines (Source)
Translator on the Roof (Chronicle)
Translator on the Roof (Source)
Freelancer Envy (Chronicle)
Freelancer Envy (Source)
Translation Tango (Chronicle)
Translation Tango (Source)
Translation in Space and Time (Chronicle)
Translation in Space and Time (Source)
My Mother Tongue (Chronicle)
My Mother Tongue (Source)
Everybody's Talking at You (Source)
Art in Translation (Chronicle)
Art in Translation (Source)
Cotton Candy (Source)
¡Gringo! (Source)
Spanglish (Source)
Surrounded by Language (Source)
OMG! (Chronicle)
My LitSIG (Source)
Backstage at the Debate (Chronicle)

Stories & Articles

Bridging the Language Gap (at TEEX)
The Season
The Dancing Goat Cafe
The Interpreter
The Rodriguez Tango
Aranjuez
All This and Money, Too!
An Interpreter’s Nightmare
Rage Against the Machine Translation
The Walk
The Yellow Beetle
The Dreamtime
Chicken Soup for the Road
Island Sketches
Just My Interpretation
Beware Those Awful Buzzwords

Memoirs

As a writer I go back in time and recapture certain moments of my life, then tell the story in a series of brief essays. Most of these essays were originally published in The Letter, the journal of the AATIA. I am deeply grateful to Mike Conner, the editor, for his support.

Reviews and Interviews

Recordings
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow
Opening Mexico
Soltando amarras/Casting Off
Caramelo
Vivir para contarla
Pedro Páramo
The Avon Lady
The Losers Club
Six Kinds of Sky
The Years with Laura Díaz
The Crystal Frontier
Doña Inés
Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth
Borges
Carlos Fuentes interview
Liliana Valenzuela
Andy Hurley
My poem "Morning Noon and Night" was recently recorded by Martín Lyon, the guitarist with the Uruguayan group Marvin Bridge & the Haddocks. Listen to it here. Click on the Poet tab above to read the poem.