Maybe tis the season here, for challenging internet and phone connections.  To all who have tried to contact me, I send my greetings and love back at ya!  I’m in my internet cafe for a few precious minutes yet even here the connection is slow…slow…slow… Such is the pace of this moment.  To accept and […]

We were enchanted by Sofia and Michelle’s “Happy Kids of Bonao” bilingual school Holiday play this past week.  A local woman sewed every child’s outfit for approximately 300 pesos each (about US $7.50).  You can see Michelle in her red outfit, above, performing with her classmates, swinging her maracas all around and over her head […]

Hey My Faithful Friends:) Happy to be with you right here and now. I was honored and excited to be asked to contribute an article in a hip, forward thinking on line publication called “Precis.” In issue 5, just published yesterday, you will find “Off The Grid, EcoRetreat Style” written by yours truly, on pages […]

Massachusetts, you’re a “HOT-Breakah,” to say it in the Bostonian accent! Massachusetts, you are intelligent and refined, independent and hot-headed on the road. You are liberal, fair, and guess what? Between the months of November and April you are wicked cold, baby! So we were all swathed in layers and piles of clothing for two […]