Monday, July 25, 2011

Moving to Costa Rica

On August 17 we will land in San Jose, Costa Rica to begin a school-year adventure. We're going into this with lots of unanswered questions like where will we live? How will we get around? Will we have enough money? Once settled in, my work is pretty well defined: I will write and do research. As a family, we mainly want to have fun. And for the kids, they will learn Spanish... Bringing myself back to the present, so much to do to prepare the house for renters moving in on August 1, pack what we think we'll need for 9 1/2 months, and otherwise attend to all the details associated with moving. It will come together; and if not, well, we're moving to Costa Rica anyway.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Cafe Felix

Music blasts dark cadences of desire across an open field. Tattooed breasts in the eastern sky reveal our place in the world. “Down!” she shouts, missing why an old man slumps in a plastic car seat on the empty parking lot. “What does this mean?” ask young lovers as they flip through channels of despair on a television that no longer works.  Chemo is today's special eluding the bloody reality oozing from pores where we feel but won’t look.