Today, I set out with the brother and sister of Manuel (see earlier entry “success story”) to buy them shoes. We have our first donation/contribution from Stan and Bluma Kaplan (my parents). Hop into a taxi for 20 cordoba (75…
Political upheaval or politics as usual?
The political class is up in arms. The major “right of center” daily newspaper “La Prensa” screams in bold type “La Dictadura!”. Frenetic emails from colleagues about “what happened”. OK, so what DID happen yesterday? President Daniel Ortega, formerly leader…
Managing Traffic at Casa Hubbert’s Peak
It sure SEEMS that there is a constant flow of people knocking at the door, prompting me to interrupt whatever I am doing to go to the door. So today I thought I would do some empirical data collection. Here…
Ostional update
Two weeks have gone by since we dropped off the fruit trees at our place in Ostional. There was much work to be done in two weeks by our Cuidador. Most importantly, might we now have water access (to water…
Vignettes from a full week…
Last of the boxes — Inconspicuous we were not as we moved our wooden beds, boxes and other extraneous stuff to the studio property for storage, two blocks down the street. It got there on a small cart pulled by…
A long awaited delivery.
Having just learned that a handful of items have been “lifted” by the customs department (and pending resolution), we find ourselves awaiting delivery of the six pallets of “stuff” we shipped from Chicago, three months ago. A truck pulls up,…
Two success stories..
One of the attributes of living in Nicaragua is that one can have impact on a daily basis. Poverty being omnipresent, one does not have to seek out established organizations, one can simply opt to “help as one can”, on…
There will be fruit trees…
We decide that it’s finally time to plant fruit trees on our small beach property south of San Juan Del Sur (in Ostional). Ever since we got this piece of land overlooking the ocean, we fantasized about what would go…