Apr 27, 2006 | Culture Shock, Moving-To, Spanish
This morning, I had my second private Spanish lesson with Esther at the Amistad Institute. Esther is our beauty queen profesora de Español. She is charged with teaching me to speak the language!!! Which I am going to learn come hell or high water. I confess to being...
Apr 24, 2006 | Cost of Living, Medical Care, XAVIER
Hal, my handsome husband, has quite the handsome colon. Who knew??? I got to see the whole thing. Now we are really really married. It is perfect: pink, healthy, just a smashing colon. I could go on and on about the health care you get here in Costa Rica. It is...
Apr 20, 2006 | Cost of Living, Medical Care, XAVIER
If you’ve ever had, or are thinking of having, a colonoscopy (which should include everyone I know) read this. Jal is having one Monday (no photos, you can relax). So far, the colonoscopy news is all great. I’m hoping on Monday I won’t be reporting...
Apr 20, 2006 | God, what a world!, Political Blah-Blah
If you travel the blog, you’ll see Hao Wu’s image everywhere. Rebecca MacKinnon’s oped in today’s Washington Post tells the story:"Another victim of Chinese state kidnapping — with whom I am personally connected — is Wu Hao, an...
Apr 20, 2006 | God, what a world!, Gold
5/2/06 UPDATE: This post was first published on 4/20/06 with a follow-up story yesterday called Free Piano. Today we took our offender’s real name off the blogs. We have the last of the money… almost. But here’s the thing: If you are thinking of...
Apr 17, 2006 | Drug War, Political Blah-Blah
This from today’s A.M. Costa Rica: "The United States says efforts to help Colombia eradicate the coca crop are working, despite a 26 percent increase in coca cultivation areas from 2004 to 2005."Priceless.
