This story is about my Mother (Maruja Gomez) and the great times I remember growing …

Memories of Galapagos Islands
Memories of Galapagos Islands
This story is about my Mother (Maruja Gomez) and the great times I remember growing …
Are you a DIY (Do It Yourself) or a DIFM (Do It For Me)person? I …
Whenever I think of a faucet and how easy it is to get water in civilized society, it reminds me of my days in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz (Galapagos Islands). We didn’t have running water, so we did not need faucets. In the USA and the Western world, where the mere need for water is as easy as opening your faucet, filling a glass, and drinking from it, people do not appreciate how hard it is to live in a third-world country. Let me tell you how hard it is to get just a glass of water to drink.
(more…)Why did I run away from home so much while I lived in the Galapagos …
In the late 1990’s, while I was in Guatemala, I took a weekend to visit …
Pivotal, in the sense that my choice determined what came next. For example, Meeting the …