the night visitor In Ecuador they call them vampiros. In English they are vampire bats. Our woeful story begins at latitude zero degrees on a little farm of 10 hectares precariously perched on a steep Andean mountainside. Something out of the ordinary came to my attention in the sparkling, misty dawn of the Valle de […]
Deborah Medley
Meeting Tata
Tata was Raul’s mother, Melodia’s Ecuadorian grandmother, and the person I eventually learned would be my best friend and partner in crime while I was living in Ecuador. Our beginnings as in-laws were awkward and sometimes painful, for both of us. I was naive and in love with her son, and Tata was a devoted […]