Tag: Belize
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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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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…
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blessed love
When I was here in March I became acquainted with one of the bartenders at the beautiful resort my friend Mandy and I stayed at. Bam is a small guy that moves quickly, customers love him and he makes the best drinks. Once I returned home we still sent greetings back and forth to see…
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Callaloo & My Carnivore Card
(If you read until the end, let me know if the title above works or if “Chicken Doesn’t Count” is better. Sometimes the hardest part of writing is coming up with a snappy title!) Two days ago while in my usual “office space” at the cafe – second stool from the left, direct view of…
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Naked and Afraid aka Six-Week Check-in
During a visit with family two weeks before I moved here, my mom and I were sitting in her living room one afternoon and she was asking me some questions about this trip. I answered them and she finally exclaimed, “Well it sounds like you’re going to be on an episode of Naked and Afraid!”…
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Bilingual Bananas
I had heard about the small produce market each week on the island when Mennonites from northern Belize would come down to sell fruit, vegetables and meat. Being used to amazing farmers markets back home, especially when living in Wisconsin’s Amish country, I knew what the Mennonites brought down to us would be better than…
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Tentacular
DISCLAIMER: This post is about preparing octopus for dinner. Vegans and animal activists proceed with caution. I’m not looking to get canceled, I am just hungry. This is not a cooking blog but I will try to explain how I came upon a fresh octopus for dinner. I love grilled octopus, scallops, boiled crab, and…
Pixie in Paradise 