Bless you, AM Costa Rica. Once again I have been inspired by my morning reading. Over the past couple of issues there has been a ‘dialog’ (if you want to be polite) between detractors and defenders of my adopted country of residence. Since I’m both a detractor AND a defender, I shall wade in where
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Once again I draw inspiration from the letters to the editor sent to AM Costa Rica. Variations of these letters appear rather frequently on that site. Perhaps the editor feels it his duty to publish all opinion. Perhaps he likes that it’s free content for his web site. Probably both. In any case, the most
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In a way I suppose it’s all my fault. I was the one who told him about Costa Rica. He came down for a visit and within a year he was living here. Actually, it isn’t ALL my fault, but I did set the chain of events in motion. Here’s (part of) Dave’s story. I
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I sometimes like to make fun of AM Costa Rica, I can’t help myself. Today’s headline is a case in point: President immortalized on new postal emission Postal emission??? But still I read the site regularly. In the June 10th, 2011 edition they had a little article that nicely summarized the good things about Costa
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This is getting to be a habit. I hope. At any rate, I had a couple of nice things happen to me today, and thought I’d share. It started with a problem Saturday afternoon. The worst thing imaginable happened… my INTERNET stopped working. I called tech support at ICE, although I had been warned not
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It’s Thanksgiving Day as I write this, so I’ll start by giving thanks. I am thankful for the weather here. It may rain too much sometimes, the wind may howl and require me to put on a sweatshirt once in a while, it may get so warm I perspire even with the fan on once
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