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...
The World Bank announced that it committed credits by $400 million between 2012 and 2015 to support a plan to improve higher education in Costa Rica.
With these funds, "Costa Rica will be able to support the public university system,...
As the economy recovers and tourism grows the number of jobs increase for Costa Rica. Foreign investment is also attracted to this country and with it thousands of jobs are becoming available.
The number of workers in Costa Rica’s construction...
As of the next high season, Germany will have a direct air link to Costa Rica’s most popular tourism area bringing with it revenues from European tourists.
Though the Catholic Church has supposedly changed a great deal, in truth its modernization is a veneer over a decaying 2000-year structure. The cornerstone of medieval Catholicism—guilt—is still the cornerstone. The only difference is that rather than guilt with...
In Latin America, Managua, Nicaragua is the cheapest city to live in according to study.
Managua is the city of Latin America with the lowest costs to live in the case of the foreign employees of multinational companies.
Nicaragua is also...
