So I'm eating a delicious, buttery, salty garnet yam right now and I'm going to go ahead and blame any recent fault in my life on it, and its kind. By its kind, what I reference are those objects and experiences, edible and otherwise, that so distract from introspection and writing thereof. I at some [...]
Allow me to brush away the cobwebs from my pixels and from my memories.
On June 26, 2006, I arrived in Seattle and was instantly lost. Literally, I was lost. I could not find my way around the city for the life of me. Ten days prior, I had completed my final day of work at [...]
I am awake, right now, so late because—can you guess? Come on, I thought you knew me better than that. I have an early plane flight! Why else would I be awake?
Oh, right, I stay awake this late all the time when I have work to do. Um, okay, moving on to my actual topic.
Ahem.
I [...]
I return now to writing at two in the morning, just hours away from a fateful trip to México. I cannot claim that I recall correctly the moments described below my present comments but I will attest that surfing in Tamarindo left an indelible impression on me.
I began surfing in earnest with only the second [...]
If ever I love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
I finished last night reading [...]
I tried to choose only three favorite photos from our weekend trip to Monteverde but I found the task impossible. I offer you six instead.
Are we all clear as to who is the focus of this blog? Let me make it clear. I am the focus, and I am in Costa Rica. Here I am, Carlos Andrés Drew d'Avis, three times.