Yeah, it’s still raining. And raining. And raining. Record amounts of lluvia this season, with no relief in sight. It has something to do with La Niña, or so they say. The infrastructure of the whole southern Osa peninsula is disintegrating before our very eyes. Suffice it to say, we’ve already had over 9 meters…

Kind of ironic that I’m sitting on my terrace polishing my manuscript as I look out on blue skies and a clear view of the whale’s tail. The first sunny day in weeks, and here I am complaining about the rain. Not complaining, really, just already tired of the damp, humid, and coolish weather that…

The buzzing of a chainsaw has my gut in knots. How can I protest the deforestation of the rainforest when I’m part of the very problem that I doth protest? Our neighbors are going batshit crazy over building more and more rentals on their properties, because if one is good, three is better? The same…

Just for fun, I wanted to share a glimpse of what’s it like to live in Paradise, 24/7. It’s everything the travel brochures selling a beachy jungle experience promise, and more. Much, much more. And not all of it’s glam, Disney-approved, and sanitized. So, a few days ago we were awakened at midnight by the…

So much has happened since that Rumble in the Jungle. Both dogs have recovered nicely from their wounds, gracias a dios, and have adjusted to a much smaller play area. Phoenix did experience a two-week PTSD episode after smelling a pizote on one of his walks with K. He bolted home, tugging hard on his…

It had been a rather idyllic day, actually. We began our morning sitting on the terrace sipping fresh-brewed, homegrown coffee.  We basked in the radiant warmth of the sun after enduring several sunless, rainy days. It is the rainy season after all, and the reason everything stays so viridian green and grows at the speed…

After much trepidation, I am going to take a leap of faith and share with you my first Flash Fiction piece. What is that, you may wonder. It’s a short story written in less than 1000 words. I am honored to be working with a group of international novelists, and we all took the challenge…

Perhaps for the first time in my life, I am truly grateful for my many blessings, with a clarity of perception never before experienced. A decade ago I would have bemoaned their paucity, but today I am reveling in the richness of my life with an appreciation that somehow seems more pure, more organic. Passing…

I just had to add a rather amusing postscript to yesterday’s blog. As we sat in blissful tranquility this morning, overlooking the Central Valley with a steaming cup of primo cafe, K and I realized that one of the greatest blessings for us to social distancing this past year has been the almost total absence…

The last two and a half months have been emotionally and spiritually noxious for me, and based on my FB feed, for most of humanity. For a whole spectrum of divergent reasons. What is clear is that in the past year Covid has been weaponized by forces intent on obfuscating its deadly, scientific properties and…