I am thrilled/over the moon/gobsmacked to announce that my adventures as a reporter and caregiver in Lima and the Andes will be published next year as Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru, by LSU Press. Longtime readers of this blog will remember that El Fotografo and I, along with El Hijo, moved to Lima in 2007 and lived there for seven years. I was busy documenting climate change and writing feature stories for U.S. outlets when, in 2011, my estranged father in Florida was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and all that activity ground to a half. We took my father into our house in Miraflores, and…