Steven A. Melnick ⁽⁷¹⁾

OK, I have to admit, I finally can’t stand the heat. Those of you up north will pity me I’m sure as I suffer through daytime temperatures of 87-89 degrees (feels more like the 90s with the humidity) and night time lows in the low…

Street-side booths selling everything under the sun I'm walking a lot, seeing some of the same faces each day and they are beginning to warm up to me. The Nicos on the street in this area are not as friendly as the Ticos Heide and…

Off again to foreign lands...this time Managua, Nicaragua. I am spending 15 days here to check out another country, it's people and culture, and in yet another futile attempt to learn Spanish. I started my journey on Monday and have been staying in a small…

One of the benefits of retirement is that I get to read a lot more than I used to and not all of it has to be professional, academic journals that are more boring than watching whale snot dry. I get to choose books I'm interested…

The trip to Costa Rica has come to an end. And what an end it was. After a two-hour delay in the terminal before being allowed to board our plane (our flight was to have left at 2:40pm), we had another two-hour wait onboard while…