Leatherbacks : A Close to Home Concern
The leatherback sea turtle is the largest of all surviving turtle species. It’s also the fourth heaviest reptile, with three species of crocodile weighing more. Leatherbacks are differentiated from other sea turtles by their lack of a bony shell. Instead, the top...
Museum Frida Kahlo
An hour before closing time, culminating my whirlwind one-day art tour focusing on Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, I arrived at La Casa Azul in Mexico City's lovely barrio of Coyoacán. Casa Azul, home of the Frida Kahlo Museum, is appropriately named, the outside a...
Ulises Rivera Prolific Mural Artist
Ulises “Ulillo” Rivera is a self-taught artist who was born in Mexico but raised in Costa Rica, where he currently resides. From a very young age, Ulilo Rivera was influenced by art. He studied graphic design but it was on the walls that he found his medium. He...
A Challenge to Feel Good
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cómo están, my fellow entrepreneurs, business owners, working moms and friends? Before I started to brainstorm about what I was going to write for this Howler article, I searched for my the last three ones: Emotional...
Magical San Vito
A Wonderland of Wildlife, Scenery and Culture I was recently invited by friends to go on a two-night trip to the San Vito area of Costa Rica. The main purpose was to look for specific birds my two friends wanted to see to check off their bird lists. The plan was to...
Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center (See the beautiful photos below. Click here for puzzles of the animals.) Recently, I was contacted by Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center and asked if I could use my photography skills to help Costa Rican...
Lifting Disabled Barriers to Cahuita’s Beach Beauty
[uxgallery id="9"] ProParques Strives for Inclusive Access to Enjoy Nature Have you ever tried to push a wheelchair through the sand? No, I have not either, but just the idea of it is exhausting to me. That is why you have likely never seen wheelchairs at the beach....
Do Foreigners Require a Costa Rica Will?
Do Foreigners Require a Costa Rica Will? As a Costa Rica lawyer I am often asked by expat clients whether they require a Costa Rica will to provide for the disposition of their assets in this country when they die. The strictly legal answer is no, they do not, as long...
Ants need a new PR
Ants of CR could use better PR According to The Encyclopedia Britannica, ants are second only to human beings as the most social and communal animals on earth. Some philosophers and myrmecologists (scientists who study ants) have suggested that this order...
Preserving Paradise
[uxgallery id="5"] “They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got til it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot” Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow...