‘Tis The Season

This promises to be one of the best, if not the best, Christmas season we have ever had.  It started out with our gratitude from both of us recovering from health problems–not major but annoying and limiting.  For about 2 months, I had been experiencing another round of sciatica, which wasn’t responding to my usual [...]

Disaster In Eastern Panamá

I read La Prensa daily, and for nearly the past week, the news has been increasingly grave due to the heavy rains Panama City, Colón, and areas nearby have received.  At one point on Wednesday, traffic on the Canal was suspended for 17 hours.  What has been alarming in the extreme is that important reservoirs [...]

A Gorgeous Day

Yesterday was a beautiful day–partly cloudy but a mild, lovely day.  And continuing today.  When we got up this morning, for one of the very few times since we’ve been here, the sky was cloudless–and filled with stars.  Mary went outside first, and just oohed and aahed (I had to remind her that at 4:30 [...]