Decided to end this year with a bang taking myself as well as the rest of the crew, consisting of Lily, her daughters, her sister, and her sister’s two children, to Cahuita on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. We all piled into a Cahuita style stick-built and stilted beach house with nothing more inside […]
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My grandmother and grandfather enjoyed decades of marital bliss until he died in 1991. My grandmother lives to this day and now is past 90! I believe one of the secrets for their marital success was due to my grandfather being a little deaf, or deef, as one would say in Sampson County, North Carolina. […]
Goodbye 2009, hello 2010! It seems each new year brings an expectation of better, or at least different, things to come. The essence of the so-called “New Year’s resolution” is being fed-up with the old and ready, though maybe not willing, nor able, to bring on the new. After all, like “they” always say, “the grass […]
I have written many times about the incredible depth of biological diversity that exists in Costa Rica. However, it is in the variety of bird species where that diversity is displayed most dramatically. Have you ever wondered why out of all the creatures, God made birds the most delicate and beautiful of all? Maybe it is […]
Can politics save our planet? This week the politicos of many countries gather in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss what to do about global warming. The problem I have with all this is it seems that no one is willing to lift a finger unless there is something in it for them. That is certainly true […]
Rush Limbaugh is fond of making light of the so-called “environmentalist wackos.” These are people with a neurotic concern that human “progress” is encroaching on the environment in irreversible ways. For a long time these types were considered odd and anti-progressive by most people. That is, until Al Gore showed us all that it’s not […]
It may be true that North Americans have a tendency and reputation of looking down their collective noses toward those down south. But at least here in Costa Rica, there is a stubborn aversion to ever look up. Living in Costa Rica often gives me the perspective of an outsider looking in, not only to […]
I have alluded in the past to my affinity for “musica ranchera,” which is a Mexican form that I would equate to country music back in the U.S. It is beer-drinking music for the broken-hearted, or for those who just want to get drunk. Last night we all (meaning, me and the rest of the […]
I have a gripe with the “gripe porcina” (or “swine flu” as you “northerners” call it). And that is, what’s the big deal? People have been getting all types of flu since the dawning of civilization. Why has this one suddenly become so infamously popular. This microscopic bug is more well-known world-wide than Michael Jackson. And […]
I truly enjoy writing. Talking is another thing. I am just not that fond of it. When I have something to say, I say it. When I don’t, I stay quiet. Of course, all the foregoing applies when I am sane and sober, which is around 80% of the time. As for the other 20%? […]
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