An awakening — Sometimes a girl just has to get away, even when she already lives in paradise. Those lawn and garden chores, dishes in the sink, grocery shopping and meal planning, laundry—not to mention actual work. Yes, even here on the edge of the rainforest there are still too many things to…

But I don’t recommend this method — Author’s Note: Most of the research on spontaneous orgasms center around sex dreams, whether for male or female. What if there’s no sex? The Female Version I had a dream one morning recently, a powerful dream that caused me to wake up in the throes of a roaring orgasm. But not in a…

When you can’t get a damn thing done — Ah, the dog days of summer, when the sun roasts me like a burnt marshmallow, and my productivity takes a vacation to a sandy beach. In this heat, my ambition melts faster than strawberry sherbet on a sizzling sidewalk, leaving me daydreaming of a chilly escape to Antarctica. The unrelenting…

“Patient Reassured” — As a 16-year-old senior in high school, I wore my gym clothes to school under my regular outfits to avoid exposing my skinny, underdeveloped, naked body to the jeering eyes of my much more round and bosomy classmates. Not only a year younger than everyone else — I had skipped…

Are we in a twilight zone? — Tick-tock, tick-tock! In a world where time is of the essence and digital nomadism dominates, the lack of education regarding world time zones and daylight savings time is a disheartening reality. The willful ignorance surrounding this issue is baffling and, quite frankly, infuriating. This morning I had a Zoom meeting…

There’s always an alternative — Now that I’ve achieved a certain maturity — assuming a certain amount of wisdom comes with advancing age — it’s interesting and a little bit of fun to reflect on those myriad plans, whether long- or short-range, that I created, muddled through, and often abandoned over a lifetime. These days…

Lambskin Love — It was the winter of 1967. I was a very young, naive 19-year-old girl the first time I visited my dad in Frankfurt, Germany. It was also the first time I had ever flown. I must have had a guardian angel on my shoulder for that trip because my maiden…

When nobody tells you anything! — Here in beautiful Costa Rica, life is simple, beautiful, and unhurried. If something can’t happen today, perhaps tomorrow the planets will align. This is part of living la pura vida. As of 2 August, I have been here one full year, so one would think I’d be accustomed to waiting…

Is Michelangel-old? Or am I? — No one has ever accused Ticos of being afraid of color. When I moved into this house, every room was a different, shall we say, “unusual” color. In some rooms, every wall was a different hue of buyer’s remorse. Today was the day to finally start painting the guest room…