A Resource-Driven Culture

One of the reasons I chose to live in Latin America (and wound up in Panamá), is that unlike in the US, Latin Americans are real people with whom you can have real conversations about real things. While I can sputter with the best gringo over the near-doubling of the price of sand and [...]

Gardening and More

We moved into this house on June 15, 2005 and from that moment on (if truth be told, a few months before), I started working in the garden. Never mind that we didn’t have electricity (and wouldn’t for 6 more weeks), that was immaterial as far as I was concerned. After all, who [...]