Beautiful M-Bags!

Oct 11, 2006 | Books, Culture Shock, Mail and Shipping, Travel Tips

There’s a lovely, powerful saying by which I live. It goes: "The more you complain, the longer God lets you live."* Poetic, isn’t it? And productive. My complaints about not being able to get my books cheaply to Costa Rica produced many helpful...

Three Little Things

Aug 15, 2006 | Books, Movies, Restaurants

There are three little things that could keep me from being totally, insanely in love with Costa Rica: the book situation (lack of bookstores and/or a cheap way to get books here), good reasonably priced restaurants, and MOVIES. At this moment, lack of decent movies...

Bibliophiles in Costa Rica

Jun 27, 2006 | Books

At our garage sale last January, two days before leaving Key West, we sold seven floor to ceiling bookshelves filled with books. (There are still three or four bookshelves stuffed full in the house so we aren’t totally bereft!) Over the years, we have moved...