Showing posts with label Costa Rica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Costa Rica. Show all posts
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Just another little irritating thing

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Near the top of my list of irritating things these days are those tiny plastic stickers found on fruit that you buy at the grocery store....
Sunday, December 4, 2011

A voracious appetite for novels

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(My wife could probably read all the books shown here in a month.) My wife spends more time reading novels than she does talking to me,...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

On mowing the lawn

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(I doubt these guys are saving any gas.) I've been mowing lawns since I was about 7 years old.  We would never let our young kids u...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

The secrets we keep from our spouses

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(I admit I'm a cheapskate, but my wife didn't fare much better.) Violent crime against tourists is not common in Costa Rica, bu...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Walk a mile in my shoes

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(These shoes now reside in Paris.  Ignore the mismatched socks; that was just an absent-minded professor thing.) The heavy, tight-fittin...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Hay fever and the evolution of pollination

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(This woman is enjoying a good sneeze thanks to anemophily .) April and May are my favorite months in upstate New York, because overt b...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

The symbolic chairs of Cornell and Costa Rica

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(A Costa Rican rocker on the left and a Cornell chair on the right.  Which one holds the better memories?) I returned h...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Estonian, the root language of Homo sapiens

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(An international gathering of young people discussing important issues in Estonian.) I made the most amazing discovery on this vacatio...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Valentine's Day, Costa Rica!

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(On our way to a recent Valentine's Day celebration.  Sometimes it just doesn't pay to dress for dinner.) It was about as roman...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Fender-bender in Costa Rica

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(Driving in San Jose can be hectic, but the dangers of driving in rural areas in Costa Rica are just as real.) I stayed remarkably cal...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Cell phones: The device I love to hate

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I have hated cell phones since their inception. Maybe it is because I have always hated talking on the phone to almost anyone at anytime....
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

My wife, the amenity thief

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(Are these items found in a hotel in Hong Kong or in my bathroom in Danby, NY?  Answer: both.) Step into any hotel room with my wife an...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Of invasive plants and Big Macs

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(A McDonalds in Cairo.  Your order please.  Hamburger or hummus?) One of the first-hand observations I have made over the past few year...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

The value of wood and the role of women in reforestation

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(Kenyan women being checked for their wood-collecting permits near Kijabe.) The striking thing about visiting an arid part of the globe...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

When a snake bites your student on his buttocks

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(Would you check the white Swiss butt of this biologist for a snake bite?) When you do field work in places where there are venomous snake...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

The scorpion house

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(A scorpion under UV light.  Would you take a shower with this critter?) Let's go back in time a bit for this anecdote.  I find all or...
Monday, September 7, 2009

A brief anatomy of a 41-year marriage

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(I don't think I have ever kissed my wife on the beach under a setting sun.  Real life is better than that.) Today, my wife and I c...
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