Beautiful day at the beach.
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Border trip to Panama
It’s a nice excuse for a day trip, and it’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic bobbing and weaving that is essential to living in a socialized country. Today, we bought bus tickets that we will never use, from Costa Rica’s border town of San Vito to Panama, for 90 days from now. These will replace [...]
I’m a lucky bastard.
Any list of personal gratitudes could potentially be very long, for any living person: having eyes, having a mind that allows you to think, a heart that gives you desires, and the fulfillment of even tiny desires - these are all gratitudes that are available to any of us. Sometimes, life puts us in the [...]
Shhh…don’t tell anyone. I’m not getting upset.
I’m broke. Or nearly so, anyway. I came to Costa Rica with a few hundred dollars and a couple of clients. It’s been six weeks, I’ve finished all the client work, and used up all my cash. At the Feria the other day, the weekly farmers market where we buy our groceries, [...]
Dream job? Check.
I’ve got my dream job. Ramit Sethi asked in this post about people who have successfully achieved their dream job, and my comment on the post got lots of responses. So I realized it’s time for me to describe it on my own blog. I design websites while living in Costa Rica. It [...]
Family Dinner Redux
By far, one of the greatest blessings of our new life is having family dinner together. Our house is small and cozy, making it easier to corral the chaos that is our children around a table for a meal. Every day, we sit around our small wooden table, and say grace, and eat dinner together. [...]
Paving the Digital Highway in Central America
Do they really need websites here? I ask myself this question, a LOT. In Costa Rica, it's much different than America, where most of my clients live. This is a rural mountain community. In Perez Zeledon, the southern zone of Costa Rica where I live, you find things by asking friends. If you need to [...]
I am now living the best days of my life.
This is the type of affirmation that I used to repeat to myself, as a mantra to direct the sluggish iceberg of my subconscious mind into a direction that I wanted to go. By embodying that feeling, I have manifested that outcome: I am now, truly, living the best days of my life. My house [...]
How I Got a Client from Quora
There's a fun new info-aggregation website called Quora. It's kid of addictive. It's good for finding answers and experts, and for sharing your knowledge. And sometimes, it's good for finding clients. If you have an area of expertise, the easiest way for you to get clients is to become known as the person who knows [...]