El Vampiro — a story by Deborah Medley Dawn in the Valle de Vilcabamba El Vampiro — 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 […]
Deborah Medley
Meeting Tata
Adventures & Inspirations from Ecuador, as told by my mother, Deborah. 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 […]