Category: Adventures in Belize
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Leprechauns, Rastafarians, and Green Fairies, Oh My!
In my experience we are drawn to certain styles, foods, types of people, belief systems and even colors, at various stages of our lives. My favorite colors over the course of almost 30 years went from red to periwinkle blue to gray and now to green. Interestingly, I had recently been very happy wearing shades…
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Cougar Mom & Cat Cards
It’s about that time of year, where your favorite cougar starts another trip around the sun. Before that happens – around 03:30 am, Sunday – I want to take a moment and express gratitude for the woman who made it possible, and sacrificed more than any of us will truly ever know, to bring the…
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Jungle Brunch: Chopped Edition
The time spent in Central America has impacted my whole approach to life, especially how I “hunt,” prepare and eat ingredients, combining them to make life sustaining meals. I feel there is more intentional mindfulness to my approach now to not only finding food and cooking it, but also in communing and communicating with nature…
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Bright Lights, Big City & the New Year’s Eve Werewolf
I’ve been away from my beloved Playa Negra for only four days and I will describe my mental state as something between an unnecessary pout, an about-to-happen toddler tantrum and a mini depression. I also feel that there’s some culture shock happening, not because I’m in Costa Rica, but because this is the first time…
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For Better or Worse – Leaving Belize
I knew when I came to Belize that it would be for five months or fifty years. That has been my current mantra and response when people ask me where I am or where I’m headed and for how long. I don’t know anymore quite frankly and I don’t want to know the specifics. The…
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Black Balls and Green Iguanas
Since arriving in Central America I’ve had to really push past a lot of my hang ups such as fear of human germs, because I keep taking peeled fruit from strangers. An abundance of travel on public transportation involves not only overcoming motion sickness but all of the usual sights, sounds and scents that come…
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Never-ending Rain and My Highly Sensitive Bird
Here’s how five straight days of rain turned into a self-regulated therapy session or as I like to call it: too much time to think! About eighteen years ago I was living in Madison, Wisconsin with my ex husband and our four adopted chihuahuas. Adopted is implied, I didn’t pop those out myself. We actually…
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Charlie’s Chocolate Factory and the Conch Chef
DISCLAIMER: This post is about preparing conchs for dinner. Vegans and animal activists proceed with caution. I’m not looking to get canceled, I am just hungry. Having returned last week from a whirlwind, action-packed two-week Costa Rica/Panama vacation with my new British pal, Anna, I’m quickly reminded of what life is like here on this…
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Kevin Moments
To be fair, Kevin wasn’t that bad. I was just not thrilled with his brand of customer service. By this time in life we should know that there are different personalities and lifestyles everywhere we go and love, tolerance and patience goes a long way. Once in a while my less attractive traits still show…
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Dora the “Explora”
aka “Walkabout With Care” I don’t watch the news, maybe out of laziness, disinterest or because I don’t want to be bummed the hell out all day. Instead I’ll read select uplifting news feeds on Instagram, watch endless cat reels and stories from The Dodo. And I’m always up for viewing an inappropriate meme; if…
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Easy Like Sunday Morning – Is It Though?
[I had to let the words below all marinate overnight because it’s truly ridiculous to me that I was so angered by a man’s bullshit, yet that is not an infrequent occurrence. Am I right, ladies?] If I’m remembering correctly, it was just a few Sundays ago that I also found myself headed to Koko…
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AnthroCulturoPlatano
My dear friend/editor/surrogate dad/advisor/life coach Dr. Max says I should be an anthropologist. Let me start by saying I am grossly underqualified for that but it would have been a very interesting, and most likely fulfilling, profession. All I’m doing – which led to his statement – is observing humans around me. I’ve been doing…
Pixie in Paradise 