Sitting on the side of a mountain eating the thready stalk of the inside of a palm tree, sweating my face off, I wiped the sweat out of my eye, stuck the palmito in my mouth, savored it and then thought, who thinks to open the inside of a palm tree…
My Uncle Skip drove giant tractor-trailers cross country for a living when I was a kid, and Uncle Skip was cool. He loved snakes and spiders and rode motocross and his van was painted in a fantasy mural and my brother and I always wanted to go on…
The school is painted! Spent all day Thursday painting the preschool with Sergio, Pedro and two helpers, and left with the blue bottom coat just starting to coat cement. Go us. Go The Friends Project! [www.thefriendsproject.org] Joselito is in th…
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller Time is moving so fast. Cant' believe it's been like 6 weeks. In another month, I'll have a new life somewhere in South…
Waiting for friends in Leon, who were inside the Sandinistan revolutionary museum, one of the volunteers gave me a quick street lesson of salsa. I then dozed off on the steps of the revolutionary museum, riddled with bullet holes in some spots, to…
I got stung by a wasp on top of Cerro Negro. THAT was freaking scary. I LIVED! That is fantastic. More news to come, but I'd like to take this moment to pat freaking-out self for not panicking when I felt the zing and Adam said, "I saw som…
I taught English the other night and the activity I gave them is to choose to create a horror or action or Mexican soap opera ... or Fast and the Furious and act it out. And then I gave them stuff like a machete and me and a cat and having to sing…
People are out there making a difference everyday. We just don't hear about them. One important thing we're doing here is meeting them and sharing their stories of how their beliefs, their words and their actions impact their families, the…
Got up at 5 a.m. to bike to a farm with my friends Frankling and Jose Luuis, who works on a milk farm, to drink fresh milk and test my hand at milking a cow. Finally managed to milk a steady stream from a patient one, until Jose Luis (otherwise kn…
