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La Pura Vida as a State of Being
Posted on 21/02/2013
February 20, 2013 To live in Costa Rica is “la pura vida” – a common dicho or saying that literally means “pure life” or “all life”. It’s a...
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The Universal Hipster
Posted on 17/02/2013
Februry 16, 2013 My new friends are hipsters, Costa Rican hipsters, in the part of town called Escalante where businesses mix with residences and people come out of industrial looking...
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On the Road from Honduras to Costa Rica
Posted on 16/02/2013
February 14, 2013 We’re headed south through Nicaragua and the land gets dryer – bramble and brush with large patches of black where the grass has been burned away. The sunlight...
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What I learned over Chinese Food in Honduras
Posted on 12/02/2013
February 9, 2013 The Chinese food in Honduras is to die for, such that I’ve come to think of the national dish as some variation of chop suey. The baleada, forget it, it’s the...
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What’s Happening in Honduras
Posted on 06/02/2013
February 2, 2013 It is Saturday morning in Tegucigalpa and I do the unthinkable: I decide to walk a few blocks in the middle of the day. I live up the hill from the Presidential House on...
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A Sewing Machine for Madgalena
Posted on 03/09/2012
We headed West for Magdalena. We knew it would be a rough ride when we had to get three nails taken out of two tires. We pulled into the nearest pinchazo on the Inter-American. ...
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The Way We Do Things Here
Posted on 17/08/2012
August 15, 2012 They almost lynched a man in my callejon this week. I had just returned from walking the dog, when I turned into our alley and saw a big circle of men surrounding something...
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Dawning Accidents
Posted on 24/06/2012
I hit two cops on a motorcycle with our V6 Toyota Tundra on Monday morning just as the sun rose turning the sky magenta. Kofy, the fearless German Shepherd now always by my side, bolted...
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Our Rainy Twilight
Posted on 24/06/2012
June 22, 2012 When the rains come it’s hard to imagine a time when there was anything but the rain – the mid-afternoon antediluvian waters that carry you into a timeless state...
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En Este Día
Posted on 14/05/2012
In 1982 she came back, for me, for all of us. I was five-years-old and living in La Limonada, a section of Guatemala where you have to make, sell, get lemonade any way you can to survive....
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