What are your options if you or someone you love dies as an American citizen in Pura Vida Land? Again this is my series on living in Costa Rica, trying to help you avoid the glaring potholes of uprooting your life to move here. It is named “Breaking Pura Vida” because just like what you…
When the victims are young women the church considers the words of the abuser more than that of the victims! This was posted this morning on X that sums up the situation: Morningstar Brings Back CSA Offender #ToddBentley This is deeply distressing. In 2019, a five-person council of elders declared Todd Bentley unfit for ministry.…
No I’m not talking of that Keith Partridge and his puka shell beads either! When men decide to define who women are. We don’t have partridges here in Costa Rica, so here’s the most plentiful bird here, the humble free-range chicken trespassing over my wall. I don’t want to start with the nasty words of…
So being happy about someone else’s good fortune is enabling their braggadocio? Is that really where this lady wants to go with sharing a photo of a recent economy car purchase? Now had it been a Cybertruck she might have had a slight point! One thing is for certain in the high demand religious organization…
When a simple garment is a flashback point for some of your worst moments in high demand religious organizations. This popped up bright and early this very morn on my social media feed. The humble modest blue jean skirt. Merely one among a pile of “mend it/remake it” videos involving sewing I sometimes peruse. Costa…
Is Moving to Costa Rica For You? Rain off the coast of Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Again this is my series on living in Costa Rica, trying to help you avoid the glaring potholes of uprooting your life to move here. It is named “Breaking Pura Vida because just like what you don’t know can trip…
This is another one of those ‘calm blue ocean’ needed pieces! This very morning my husband mentioned to me an article about another cult church thriving in our little old slice of Virginia and worldwide. I wasn’t much intrigued at first, right up until he mentioned the name of the founder – William Branham. Branham,…
I woke up this am thinking about writing about foibles and follies of the media. An industry that I was part of for ten years that has turned deeply toxic. But I realized after seeing the blog posts of a few people I know, and many I don’t about moving here thinking it’s going to…
When my weird little worlds collide, recognizing the extreme outliers in life, and knowing when to tap out. There’s a house near here that intrigued me from the moment I laid eyes upon it. I saw it shortly after my husband and I bought our blessed little acre near the Pacific here in Costa Rica.…
Not Gerry, but my favorite photograph of a Howler Monkey I’ve taken during my years in Costa Rica. Taken right outside my studio window. One of the expats who lives near us that I’ve gotten the biggest kick out of through the years is a guy named Gerry. Brilliant guy, I would venture to say…