Yesterday I spent the day at the Maleku Indigenous Reserve in Guatuso. My guide for this adventure was a Maleku Indian with the Spanish name of Elias Elizondo Castro, but whose Maleku name is Jaquima, which means lover of nature. And Jaquima really did love nature. He took me on a walk through a nature […]
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I can remember on one of my first trips to Costa Rica, back in October of 2001, I believe, when the owner of the university I was working for paid for me and my assistant to take a trip over to the Caribbean side. I wanted to do a little surfing and they chose for […]
I have written often and quite fondly, generally, in this blog about the culture of Costa Rica. However, there is a rich and diverse culture that to my shame I have neglected to mention, until now. It is often said, and even taught in schools here, that when the Spanish arrived, the so-called “conquistadors,” they […]
Everyone seems to be making hay of the recent New York Times piece about Costa Ricans being the world’s happiest people. How can that be…they are third worlders, you might be thinking. They are weak, defenseless, and lack the technological sophistication and material wealth of many other nations and peoples. Well, as the article alludes, the […]
Decided to end this year with a bang taking myself as well as the rest of the crew, consisting of Lily, her daughters, her sister, and her sister’s two children, to Cahuita on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. We all piled into a Cahuita style stick-built and stilted beach house with nothing more inside […]
My grandmother and grandfather enjoyed decades of marital bliss until he died in 1991. My grandmother lives to this day and now is past 90! I believe one of the secrets for their marital success was due to my grandfather being a little deaf, or deef, as one would say in Sampson County, North Carolina. […]
Goodbye 2009, hello 2010! It seems each new year brings an expectation of better, or at least different, things to come. The essence of the so-called “New Year’s resolution” is being fed-up with the old and ready, though maybe not willing, nor able, to bring on the new. After all, like “they” always say, “the grass […]
I have written many times about the incredible depth of biological diversity that exists in Costa Rica. However, it is in the variety of bird species where that diversity is displayed most dramatically. Have you ever wondered why out of all the creatures, God made birds the most delicate and beautiful of all? Maybe it is […]
Can politics save our planet? This week the politicos of many countries gather in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss what to do about global warming. The problem I have with all this is it seems that no one is willing to lift a finger unless there is something in it for them. That is certainly true […]
Rush Limbaugh is fond of making light of the so-called “environmentalist wackos.” These are people with a neurotic concern that human “progress” is encroaching on the environment in irreversible ways. For a long time these types were considered odd and anti-progressive by most people. That is, until Al Gore showed us all that it’s not […]
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