Melanie is never lost. She’s in the garden. In every place she’s ever lived - and she’s had a few addresses - she has transformed patchy...

It’s been a year here, give or take, but I have no real concept of time, which actually doesn’t really bother me much. I have seriously...

On this, my first Thanksgiving living in another country, there are oh so many things on my mind. Here are a few of them … I am filled...

I am breathing in, I am breathing out. Breathing in, breathing out … breathing in, breathing out. I try to note my breathing this way...

At first meeting, you don’t have any way of knowing who Brooke Bishop will turn out to be. Sure, you’re dazzled by her fluency in...

Some people prepare for a long distance hike by stuffing five-pound sugar or flour bags in their backpacks to get used to carrying the...

I'm sorry to say that we ask this question all too often, seeing as we are in a Spanish speaking country. Of course, our goal is to be...

Apologies for being a bit incommunicado lately. I’ve been busy acquiring some new hardware to mess with the airport TSA folks. And also,...

Life has been more difficult in the last couple of weeks, but in the words of a wise friend, “You’re in the thick of it now, and I am...

If you are familiar with the children’s book classic, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” by Judith Viorst, let...

There is so much to tell, and many of these topics deserve way more discussion than they will get here today. Stay tuned for more on...

Let’s start this beginning in the middle. About a month into our great adventure of moving to Costa Rica, my sister Melanie and I were in...