I am not trying to pass off the information as my own, which is what I believe you are accusing me of.

I took the photo of the pollera display myself. It does not belong to My Peru.

Do you represent the My Peru website? Are your opinions that of Mike Weston and his staff? If so, please identify yourself through the contact form. If the owners of My Peru want me to remove the links to their site and the quoted material, I will readily do so.

Most websites and blogs are glad for links that point traffic their way, such as this one. However, if My Peru does not want its information excerpted on or referenced by other websites, I will oblige.

Roger, It appears that you are fishing for a hookup via my blog. Are you really sure that you want to leave your phone numbers here? It could be unsafe. I mean, do you know the kind of women who visit An American in Lima?

They are not the naive gringas that you imagine. My visitors are smart, cunning women of the world who hold advanced degrees in anthropology, gastronomy and political science, and who can negotiate cab prices in Lima. I have ace martial-arts experts who visit this blog and, with one kick, can paralyze a man from the neck down.

These ladies are fierce gringas!

Be warned.

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How lovely that your mother made clothes for you and your sister and that she enjoyed doing so. I grew up in the U.S. and my mother couldn’t sew; she bought me all of my clothes. However, we did take knitting classes together and she was okay at that, a little awkward at first. I remember her first pair of mittens: the thumbs were like four inches too long!

Your mom makes an interesting distinction: making clothes as a “hobby” in the capital vs a “necessity” in the sierra, most likely due to money, right? Her comment ties into the theme of making things by hand, which is so intrinsic to Peru. I’ll have to write more about that one of these days.

How lovely that your mother made clothes for you and your sister and that she enjoyed doing so. I grew up in the U.S. and my mother couldn’t sew; she bought me all of my clothes. However, we did take knitting classes together and she was okay at that, a little awkward at first. I remember her first pair of mittens: the thumbs were like four inches too long!

Your mom makes an interesting distinction: making clothes as a “hobby” in the capital vs a “necessity” in the sierra, most likely due to money, right? Her comment ties into the theme of making things by hand, which is so intrinsic to Peru. I’ll have to write more about that one of these days.