Bridging Cultures
Jose Recio
I am blending my medical background and life experiences to practice creative writing.
Online publication has the advantage over print in that the length of the literary piece is not a limitation to the publisher. My short memoir (29 pages) was published online (#athinsliceofanxiety.com) in October 2023.
This memoir covers a phase in my life experienced from February 2009 until June 2012. My American wife and I moved from California to Spain. ?Circumstances of different kinds pushed us to return to California. In this memoir, readers won’t encounter traumatic events; instead, readers will follow the successes and failures of a married couple who, amid in their adjustment to a new phase in their own lives, faced a multitude of significant cultural differences, having to individually grasp, conciliate, assimilate, and integrate. I am pleased to publish here a brief extract.
? BRIDGING CULTURES
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(A Memoir: 2009 - 2012) (By Jose L Recio)
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?While we walked about at our leisure in a welcoming and engaging urban atmosphere, I shared with Deborah memories from the époque when I lived in Madrid in the late sixties and early seventies during my postgraduate medical training. The city looked to me as expanded and built up since, the old and the new blended in harmony and other times in disharmony. Of course, Madrid (like most European capitals) had problems: The traffic turned rough at rush hours; the downtown streets became overcrowded or closed to the public due to a broken pipe or other eventuality. But Deborah and I approached our surroundings with a rosy frame of mind, which made us oblivious to the external negatives. However, after a while, we both admitted feeling like we needed to settle.