Retirement
For those of you as may not know, my best friend, my partner–my love, my wife died on the 29th of March of this year. I am such a better man for having been her partner, if not her equal. At times, still, I cannot imagine a future without her, even as she so generously […]
Hi, I say that “It’s good to be me” without even a hint of irony. This is interesting to me. I don’t believe that I’ve ever heard the phrase used in English without an ironic intention. Take clothing as one small illustration of the goodness of my life. Those of you who’ve known me for […]
Hi, I suppose that wherever you may be reading this, you do have road conditions. How are they, generally? You might not realize it, to hear the way some people complain, but the condition of our roads locally has been consistently improving over the five years that we’ve been coming to Las Galeras. This isn’t […]
Hi, Once again, it’s Thanksgiving Day again here in Las Galeras and once again we’ll sit down to a semi-traditional US dinner with an assortment of American and European ex-pats and a Dominican and Haitian or two. Once again we do have much cause to be grateful, beginning with the accidents of birth and the […]
Hi, When we departed the Dominican last spring we–very quickly and with almost no preparation–made the arrangement for a young Haitian family to move into our guest bungalow for the time that we were away. Johnnie and his wife, Anna have worked for some time for friends who live nearby, and the friends vouched for […]