I'm quite happy with this postcard. It's an iPhone photo using Hipstamatic to create the vibrance. The creature is so marvelous, one of...

I live where bamboo grows. It sprouts in a spray like fireworks caught in a snapshot. Visually dramatic, it is 3 stories high. Tall and...

A man gets up on a Saturday morning to find the kids sprawled across the living room deep asleep. This slumber party lasted till dawn,...

I love watching the cat, always have. Although he’s not my cat, he’s my cat as much as any cat. I’ve known him all his life, like an...

It’s an old story, the one entitled: Youth is Wasted on the Young. But seriously, how true is that? I remember having some fun times...

Stools in the sunlight. waiting for a customer, not going anywhere embedded in the cement. stools enjoying the light, enjoying the shade....

A man on his land, surrounded by cane. We visited some friends of friends in a far-off place called Pirris. One gets there via a...

Sugar and sugarcane are the business of this landholding family we visited one weekend in Pirris, near Parrita, Costa Rica. This lovely...

We met Walberto because he is the brother of Mincho, the guy who took care of our car at the time. As Mincho had a business as a car...

This photo was taken in 2007 at a farm where a friend works in Parrita, Costa Rica. At the time, rural life was completely alien to me. I...

On the road to Turrialba, one of Costa Rica’s most beautiful volcanos, we stopped at a roadside soda for lunch. The food was fine, the...

This photo was taken looking through the window of a bakery in Heredia, Costa Rica. 2007. While walking to the market for our favourite...

Costa Rica is dog country. (And cow country, horse country, bird, bat, iguana, crocodile, butterfly, and insect country. But that’s...

This weekend we went to San Jose. To see the family. There was a birthday to be celebrated. My brother-in-law’s birthday. And as always,...

For Charlotte

Dec 26 Thursday The holiday is over, (day being the operative word here). Yesterday was divine. Yet we jump out of bed stoked with the...

These past months have been spent cooking over a fire. Regular and ritual, I sit by the fire every day. It’s been pretty cool, most days....

Dec 24 Tuesday Christmas Eve The 5 am alarm is for me alone today, a trade off for the gift of sleep while Harry worked half the night....

Monday It’s a big day for us. We’re going with Don Eloy, friend and former owner of our place, to plead our case at Coopeguancaste. This...

Dec 17, 2013 Tuesday The last day of Shore Leave never goes as planned. But why, though? There were so many days before this one where...