Feb 1, 2009 | Hal, Sports
I married well. My husband is an excellent cook, is not a drunk, brings home the bacon when no one else can find any, does not mention hardly ever mentions my weight, plays the piano and the flute, is an intellectual and does not mind I ain’t, and does not watch...
Nov 4, 2008 | Hal, Spanish
or: Nurturing Cultural Intercourse and the Integrity of English in Central AmericaWritten by guest author, el Profesor de Inglés, Hal:The school is a single room concrete block building up in the hills behind Santa Ana in Costa Rica. It’s poorly lit and cheaply...
Oct 20, 2008 | Hal, Medical Care, RYAN
The great news is that this morning I walked into Ryan’s room at around 5am because there was a funny noise. He was sleeping with his MOUTH SHUT and sorta snoring through his nose. The tamponas have a tube running down the middle of them to help breathe. THEY...
Feb 2, 2008 | Adoption, Hal, Marriage, Parents
This is Hal’s answer when someone asks how long we’ve been married. Funny, huh? But it hasn’t been forever. It’s only been 17 years, as of today: Groundhog’s Day 2008. Groundhog’s Day 1991, we got married at sunset on our little...
Dec 1, 2007 | Hal, MORGAN, Samara, Nicoya Peninsula, Ultralights
Hal and Mo went to Samara yesterday to an Air Festival put on by The Flying Crocodile. They drove, took about six hours from what I can figure. Hal emailed me this morning:Hi,Got in yesterday around 5:30. Got to the airport at about sundown. Going there again today....
Nov 19, 2007 | Culture Shock, Economy, Entrepreneurs, Expat, Hal, Health & Wellness, Hope, Key West, Living-In, Money, Spiritual Stuff
This morning, I had to admit to Hal that my homesickness has ratcheted up a notch lately. A big notch. So much so that, in my mind, I unconsciously find myself adding "when we go back" to the end of my thoughts. Unconsciously, until this morning when I heard...
Nov 18, 2007 | Entrepreneurs, Farmer's Market, Hal
I always know when Hal has a new tica girlfriend. He’s so obvious. Take this BIG bunch of bananas for instance. BIG clue. Hal doesn’t eat bananas. He doesn’t even like them unless they are fried in buddah and served hot with ice cream and melted...
