

SATURDAY MORNING ERRAND
About 45 minutes up the road from us is the Hotel Punta Islita. Although it is a large luxury resort, which is usually not my style,...


PIONEERING, ANYONE?
Here we are looking really fuzzy in front of the house that was on our property when we bought it. Now when I look back at this picture...


GRACIAS A DIOS
“Hola. ¿Cómo está?” “¿Muy bien, y usted?” “Bien, gracias a dios.” For several months after we moved here we puzzled over why such...


MY BUBBLE
By now some of you may be wondering why in the world we would choose to live in a place that presents so many challenges. Well, for...


RAMONA AND THE RATTLESNAKE
After retelling the story of what happened last Wednesday afternoon several hundred times, Maya put marker to paper and described it...


FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Do you remember where you were at 4:00 a.m. on August 6, 2009? I do. I was popping a squat in my new driveway, grateful for the light...


QUITE A PROJECT
Here is the house that stood on our property when we bought it in 2006. A large family was raised here, most of whom now live in Javilla....


BOBBING ALONG
I’ve mentioned before that the undergrowth on our property is so thick we’ve never set foot on a good portion of our 120 acres. I sit on...


BIRTH DOWNTOWN
My daughter Polly went into labor early in the morning on March 29, 2012. At 5:00 that afternoon she rode a mile down the road to the...


BIRTH, PUBLIC HOSPITAL STYLE
At 2:15 a.m. on December 21, 2010, wearing only my nightgown, I stood in an overgrown vacant lot in Brasilito, Guanacaste, looking up at...