the green chest

Tag: Rio de Janeiro

  • fact friday rio: dreams of niterói

    I can’t reveal the fact until I tell you a story. Some of my fondest memories involve markets. A market in Cotonou, Benin with a hand-carved wooden giraffe that revolutionized my grandmother’s decorative rabbit collection. A few years later, a hand-painted wooden toucan from the market at Recoleta in Buenos Aires, perfect for a sunny…

  • the halfway mark

    I haven’t been looking forward to this post. I usually like checking in on my savings, but you see… I already know I’m a little behind. So this post is going to be part update, part inspirational talk. To myself. Please bear with me. Here we go. Dear Shannon: Budgeting can be a woodsy, uphill…

  • fact friday rio: coconut water

    Fresh coconut water is delicious. wait, that’s not a fact. Fresh coconut water is sold by the beaches in Rio and it’s really good for you. that’s better. I went to Rio for a weekend in March-ish of 2008, and one of my strongest memories of the trip is fresh coconut water. It was so…