My time in Costa Rica came to an end this week. No more leaf cutter ant highways to carefully step over. No more bus rides up steep, winding mountains. No more falling asleep to the sounds of tink frogs or waking up to monkey howls. No more night hikes or crossing waterfalls…. Read more »

     Costa Rica is a beautiful country far removed from the stresses of my real life. No worries, happy life, pura vida. However, as our friend Rosa exclaimed “No! Not pura vida, we have problems!” Life does not stop because I am here. There are torrential rain storms causing flood damage along the coast… Read more »

 The second week of my Costa Rican journey was just as exciting, adventurous, and knowledgeable as the first. These weeks have been flying by like a blur, but I’ve been trying to take it all in moment by moment. Everything is so beautiful and all that I have experienced so far including the places I’ve… Read more »

  I believe that every living creature, big or small, has a meaningful purpose worth contributing to the world in which we share. Every living thing is so beautifully and intricately connected in an elegantly spun web in which the planet and its inhabitants seem to persist in an almost perfect design. Though humans are… Read more »