

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...


ONE LOVE
Here are some of our neighbors. If you've ever heard a howler monkey vocalize, you know that our neighborhood is not quiet. It's probably...


LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
There are no playgrounds, malls, museums, libraries, theme parks, music lessons, or any of the other activities associated with growing...


WHERE IS HOME?
Here is downtown Javilla, 8 minutes by car from our house. Javilla consists of this bus stop, the school behind it, a little church, the...


WHEN ROMANCE MEETS REALITY
Here I am the day we hired a team of oxen to drag some electric poles through a forested area that we wanted to disturb as little as...


HUGGED BY MOUNTAINS
Our house sits in a bowl of mountains, looking at a peek of the ocean. Our daughter Emily, her Costa Rican husband, Chan, and their two...