I decided to take Labor Day off because I am Panamanian and, by association, lazy. I make no qualms about it: I love to have as many free days as I can to vegetate and grow roots to the couch. There was a cause to go outside this year’s Labor Day, though. One that would [...]
It would seem that 103 years ago a group of socially-conscious Panamanians decided to rise up around the end of October and make November the month where most (if not all) of our most important battles for freedom took place… more than a hundred years later we, the people, enjoy these dates as excuses to [...]
I don’t know what it’s like in your country but I can sure tell you what it’s like here: Panama has the distinction of being one of the only countries in the world that has designed its independence holidays in such a way that it renders the month they’ve ended up in absolutely pointless… I [...]
If there’s one thing Panama knows how to do right, then it’s how to party. Any excuse is a good excuse, be it good or bad; I’ve gotten smashed out of my brain for stuff as mundane as getting up in the morning and being alive, getting a new dog, NOT getting a new dog, [...]