(This is my last installment in El Gringo Feo’s Costa Rica Diary. I left sooner than planned due to family issues and realized I’d never posted this final entry. If you want to read El Gringo Feo from the beginning, start here.) October 26, 2018 — Sadness at leaving. No howlers this morning. Even the agouti […]
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Return of the howlers
(To read El Gringo Feo’s Costa Rica Diary from the beginning, start here.) Sunday, October 21 I’ve been struggling mightily with a section of The Book, and yesterday morning I started to hit stride, making more progress than I had in a few days. Then the howlers showed up. Monkey business ensued. I noticed two of […]
Missing my critters … and Lara’s cooking
(To read El Gringo Feo’s Costa Rica Diary from the beginning, start here.) Sunday, October 14 I talked to Lara for a while today, and she sent me a few photos via What’s App that made me a tad homesick. Only a few more weeks before I can hang out with Sunny and Sydney and eat […]
Returning to Costa Rica
(To read El Gringo Feo’s Costa Rica Diary from the beginning, start here.) Friday, October 12 I had to get an early start today. I’m flying from Dubuque to Chicago to Miami to San José, where I plan to stay at an airport hotel before finishing the journey with a 3- or 4-hour drive to Uvita […]
Good morning …
(To read El Gringo Feo’s Costa Rica Diary from the beginning, start here.) Friday, September 28 I’m sitting here writing, not even 8 a.m. yet, when I hear a squawk. Then another. Then a third. A branch crashes down, landing less than 20 feet from where I’m sitting. And that sound. Very familiar. Like Sydney, our umbrellas […]
It’s what’s for breakfast
(To read El Gringo Feo’s Costa Rica Diary from the beginning, start here.) Saturday, September 22
I eat bandwidth. And spotted roosters …
(To read El Gringo Feo’s Costa Rica Diary from the beginning, start here.) Thursday, August 23 I walked to the Wednesday farmer’s market yesterday for some fruit, then hiked over to an ATM to ensure I’m flush with colones. I also recharged the Kolbi card that gives me a local number and data access for my […]
For Rent: One-Level 3-Bed 2-Bath in Near East Side
Rare one-level living on the near East Side! Ideal for families! Walk to the elementary school, library, and uptown.
Happy Mother’s Day
During our 28 years together, Lara and I have assembled an art collection that makes our house feel like a home. Each piece is a time machine, transporting us back to some magical point in our life together, making it ever-present. There are molas that Lara bought while visiting her friend Anita in Panama, alpaca […]
John Waters has a book he’d like Trump to read
This By the Book interview with John Waters in Sunday’s New York Times was all kinds of awesome, from his citing Ignatius J. Reilly as his favorite fictional hero to his cranky anticipation of the English translation of the next installment in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle.” But his book recommendation for President Trump was […]