Hola de la Pura Vida—hello from the Pure Life

Friends, here I am in Costa Rica, surrounded by the primoridal sound of howler monkeys waking me up, the toucans chirping me to sleep, and the smiling faces of the people, los ticos, greeting me wherever i go.  After working hard on first a novel, and then a nonfiction proposal, my brain needed nothing but…

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a picture is worth a thousand words—and then some

today…after finishing a nonfiction writing proposal, getting it in the mail to the editor, i choose to fly off to Costa Rica for the next two weeks. Have fun with whatever you’re doing in life, my dear friends. Me! I’m going to eat lots of fresh fruit, listen to the howler monkeys, and practice mi…

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