The Sandia Mountains: Yes, they really are that beautiful.
The Land of Enchantment, they call it. The Land of Entrapment, the smart asses call it.
Yet who can argue? After nearly a year and a half bombing around Mexico and Costa Rica and all points in between, I find myself back in New Mexico in the middle […]

Garrison Keillor, delivering the News From Lake Wobegon
ST PAUL, MINN. — The legendary public radio show A Prairie Home Companion comes off as an exercise in spontaneity. But sounds can deceive. The scripts are tight, the music is well coordinated, and all the segments are planned to a tee to meet a […]

This is a native Costa Rican, well, bug.
 
COSTA RICA IS KNOWN FOR ITS BIODIVERSITY, but this never really sunk in for me until a little piece of it flew into my ear.
Being midnight, I was sleeping more or less peacefully at the time. I woke to hear the buzzing of some anonymous tiny insect in […]