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Thanks, Mom, for the Secondhand Panties

Remembering Thrift Town, a bygone San Francisco sanctuary

7 min readJun 10, 2019

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Thanks, Mom for the Magic Mushrooms

A story about my first trip

5 min readFeb 6, 2019

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Meet Benedicte Bodard: The Tile Doctor of Barcelona, Spain

From 2005–2015, Benedicte Bodard pushed a Bugaboo baby stroller “hundreds of miles” across the Eixample district of Barcelona, known for…

5 min readJun 30, 2022

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Benedicte Bodard in her basement studio with Catalan modernist tiles.

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Chilean Artist Draws from Covid-19 Hospital Bed

Between oxygen doses, Guillermo del Valle took whatever he could find near his hospital bed and drew fragments of his Covid-19 ICU fight.

6 min readJul 10, 2020

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Chilean Artist Draws from Covid-19 Hospital Bed

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See Barcelona’s Iconic Tourists Sites Completely Empty During COVID-19

The city sites are often obscured by the dogpile of tourists urgent to see them. Dozens of current photos show a new, empty view.

4 min readMay 22, 2020

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San Francisco’s Weirdness Will Live on Indoors

Dispatches from a Bay Area transplant in Barcelona

3 min readMar 20, 2020

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San Francisco’s Weirdness Will Live on Indoors

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The Weirdest Christmas Gift Ever

The best gifts unlock a dragon of desires — ones we’ve forgotten or maybe didn’t even know we had.

5 min readDec 3, 2019

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The Weirdest Christmas Gift Ever

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Be a Sweetie Wipe the Seatie…Or Else!

My email inbox dinged.

4 min readFeb 12, 2019

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Be a Sweetie Wipe the Seatie…Or Else!

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I Stood You Up On Valentine’s Day

Was it an awful thing to do? Yes. Am I sorry? Hell no.

3 min readFeb 7, 2019

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I Stood You Up On Valentine’s Day

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Valentine’s Day: Skip the Fancy Dinners & Skype Instead

This Valentine’s Day my husband and I are going into separate rooms in our apartment to Skype…with each other.

3 min readJan 29, 2019

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Linda Freund

Linda Freund

Bay Area Girl in Barcelona (Bon Dia), Multimedia Journalist, Aspiring Novelist, Microbiome Nerd, Former Journalist with WSJ

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