Dec 21, 2008 | Donations, Festivals & Holidays, Weather
Of the falling you-know-what. Go ahead, you listen. I'm sick of it. This is our third rainy season here and I plan on it being my last. Almost anywhere else will do. Even Key West in the stifling end-of-hurricane-season heat (she says now.) October through...
Nov 27, 2008 | Festivals & Holidays
My friend Teri at Yo-Yo in Paradise turned me on to this – great songs by some of my favorite artists! FREE but only for a few more hours so go now if you can. That saved me $8 on iTunes and took about a minute. Click here for the songs.Thank you, Teri!
Mar 15, 2008 | Festivals & Holidays
Yesterday was Pi Day. As in the number you get when you divide the distance around a circle (its circumference) by the distance across (the diameter). Or 3.14159265358979323846 26433832795028841971. For starters. Apparently, in 2002, a Japanese computer scientist...
Jan 1, 2008 | Festivals & Holidays
Hal and I got home about an hour ago and the fireworks are still going off all around us. My LTG friends, Lisa and Tom, had a party at their house which is straight up the hill from our house. You know how we are always bragging about our incredible sweeping 180...
Dec 31, 2007 | Culture Shock, Festivals & Holidays, Hope, Indigenous Societies, Mel Gibson, Samara, Nicoya Peninsula, Volunteering
I thought of something else I need in 2008. I need to talk to Mel Gibson. If you know him, could you please get me an audience? Why? Well, he’s cute for one thing, although probably too old for me now. OK: DON’T tell him I said that. Plus, he bought a huge...
Dec 31, 2007 | Festivals & Holidays
Happy Year New from the Badgetts and us in Costa Rica! Here’s Randi, Willow (inset), Jacob, Hal, Nana, Ryan, me, Robert and Mo wishing you Prosperidad, Paz y Amor [pro-spare-ee-DAHD, prosperity; pahs, peace; ee, and; ah-MORE, love] in 2008. Who could ask for...
Dec 25, 2007 | Festivals & Holidays
Blessings all around! The fireworks stopped at 12:35am sharp. Like last year, there was a final burst of bottlerockets shot from right in front of our house. Then silence. Everywhere. Oddest thing… We finally put up a tree so Angela, my maid, would stop crossing...
Dec 13, 2007 | Festivals & Holidays, Volunteering
This is from today’s Costa Rica Living Group board:Christmas Eve in San Jose25th Anniversary On December 24th, twenty five years ago, five gifts were given to five kids in the shacks existing back then in Bajo de los Ledezma, located between Rohmoser and La...
