Home Between Places

Tagua bowls on tartan chairs. Plants from the equator on a tenement windowsill. The rooms a bicultural life makes.

Nov 18, 2025

What I Brought from Quito That's Still With Me 25 Years Later

On the 28th of December 2000, I landed in the UK wearing a pair of jeans. Twenty-five years later, my daughter wears them.

Home Between Places

Oct 20, 2025

Objects from Ecuador in a British House

A wooden spoon from Otavalo, a tagua bowl, a striped blanket folded over a tartan chair. The objects are how the two countries learn to live together.

Home Between Places

Oct 06, 2025

Tropical Plants in a Tenement Flat

How I keep a small jungle alive through Glasgow winters — and why it matters more than it should.