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The canyon fans out before me, and the gorge slices through the rocks below. Though I’m only a ten minute drive plus a ten minute walk from town, there isn’t another person in sight for miles.I cross three streamlets...

Recently I came upon the construction of a bicycle course adjacent to the creek that runs along the edge of town, behind the sycamore where I often take my sittings. When I arrived that morning, a group of boys...

In my last column I was singing the praises of Costa Rica’s extensive bus system, pointing out the significant amount of money my husband Layne and I save by having no car. For the most part, the buses here...

Living in the emergent global society, one of the questions that intrigues me is whether the lifeless consumeristic culture, which has overwhelmed people in America and generated a very high percentage of dead souls, has become virtually uniform. If...

Apparently God uses nations for different purposes at different epochs in human history, and then discards them once that purpose is served. Sadly, such is now the case with my own country, the United States of America.Our present disappointment of a...

It was a very windy day, with gusts up to 50 miles per hour. You would think the hummingbirds would be hunkered down somewhere. But a small fleet of them put on an incredible show in the backyard.Six or eight...

When I was in my 20’s, I suffered from both severe migraines and depression. They often go together. Their incidence has greatly increased in society, and I sympathize with the many people grappling with them. Perhaps my story can...

One of the ways that my husband Layne and I save money living as retirees in Costa Rica is by not owning an automobile. Cars are expensive here -- costly to buy or import and costly to maintain. By...

A social anthropologist from the University of Oslo, Thomas Hylland Erikson, gets the award for the understatement of the year by uttering this doozy: “We will have a society based on less trust ... we will be a bit...

The couple next door is a disturbing spiritual/philosophical study. They run a lucrative business from their home--as foster parents for abused and neglected children of all ages, including babies. There are legions of them in this land.They severely test...