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…
This has been quite the week, hasn’t it? We went to nearby Playa Grande one day around noon this week. We’re currently in the tail end of rainy season here in Costa Rica, meaning it can rain for days, peak rainy season, so any slight break in the weather is a good excuse to travel…
Every time I came up near this guy it seemed to go this way. However I usually crept away crying because I was not the stoic this guy is! This is another unused chapter from my book With Strange Fire. Well, full disclosure, he wasn’t a boy and his name wasn’t Sue but it was…
Panel of an angel beating a man hanging over the front door of a local Catholic church. With that image in my mind I don’t think I’ll ever visit there! Stumbled across this email I wrote more than three years ago to the church board of the church we attended here in Costa Rica. I…
Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean, I need it right now! Late the other night a political meme popped up after vice president Kamala Harris’ turn on a CNN Town Hall that just blew me away! Not because I support Harris, oh no, I am not thrilled by either of the front runners. I am…
Years ago when I was writing in local publications I’d been trained by an old hard-boiled newsroom veteran to keep copious notes and hold on to my notebooks. I wish I still had my notebooks from before my move to Costa Rica because I am sure they had all sorts of weird tidbits on the…