Once upon a time, a woman named Patty was sitting working on a blog post about the tropical bird her friend was taking care of – which happened to be garishly and fantastically rainbow-colored – when she was interrupted by, guess what? A huge rainbow, a real one, in the sky outside her apartment, with [...]
Here’s a very short video of the waves breaking on the rocks at the beach by the Tulum ruins, taken yesterday. I love the sound and the motion, and thought my blog-reader-friends might too. I got sloshed with that slightly-cool salty water at the end. I climbed the old stone stairway up the face of [...]
I’m reading The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging (by the editors of the Huffington Post; forward by Arianna Huffington) and it’s really interesting to me, so just for today I’m blogging about blogging. A couple of years ago, when the word “blog” started appearing everywhere, I had been an Internet professional for years and [...]
What is it about this town, about Mexico? It delights me in a profound way that I still have a hard time putting my finger on. I leave my departamento in the early evening to buy some tortillas and beans and cilantro, and ride my bike down the back streets to the store. I’m minding [...]
My bike looked so good parked in front of the cafe this morning that I had to take its picture. My well-loved and well-used bike.
I’ve had my Kindle for almost two months now. I can’t say that it was love at first sight; there are some things I really don’t like about it. But it has grown on me a lot, to where I can honestly say that I really like it now and am using it daily. And [...]
During another fine evening at Charlie’s in Tulum recently, this jazz band blew us all away with their funky improvisations.