It's been a while since my last blog post! You may be wondering what happened. What happened is that I have a newly designed website and it took many intense hours to pull it together. I'm hoping this blog post will reach my subscribers. (I'm also hoping you will [...]
Darwin's an impressionable, charming, and very bright young guy in his 20s, originally from Mauritius, living in Catania. We met him last year at the villa, as he is the son of the villa's caretakers and he helps his parents with their workload at the villa. Those of you reading [...]
It was a stormy blustery weekend at the coast, tempestuous, complete with sideways ice-cold rain and hailstones. Rick’s impromptu spoonerism created a great new word, a noun, an appropriate description of what was falling from the sky: “hice”, a mixture of hail and ice. And the new word stuck just [...]
Sayulita: birdsong wakes me up, birdsong and ocean waves are music to my ears as i write, sheltered, here at the casita, from the noisy sun-and-warmth-seekers' holiday madness in this beach town here at the casita, an enormous stuccoed wall painted white and covered in pink bougainvillea creates a container [...]
a stream of consciousness flows from my brain to my fingers to the keyboard to the computer screen my typing fingers are ants scrambling frantically, trying desperately to preserve their lives as a stream of Raid jets forth from a blue can held in the hands of a myrmecophobic person...i'm [...]
