Editorials

I would never think of getting in a cab in my hometown of Chicago and asking for a lift to Indianapolis, Iowa City or Milwaukee. But when I’m outside the…

I’m sitting in the last scrap of shade in Costa Rica, staring at the Pacific Ocean and watching my friends frolic in the infinity pool. I’m also working, although I’m far…

Two months before turning 11, I was living with my family in Nicaragua. If there’s a part of my life that I love to remember – is my years in that…

I heard a version of this story the other day, which is too good not to share. Three engineers were asked if they could provide an estimate for constructing a…

Costa Rica News – This has got to be some sort of joke, right? The hypocrisy in Costa Rica knows absolutely no bounds. Although Costa Rica states that it has freedom of…

DEAR ABBY: My daughters are attractive young women, both doing well in their professional careers. “Melanie,” who is 27, is married to “Sam,” an extremely attractive and successful man.

I’m a 35 year old woman that lives in a country that still doesn’t have a laic government, where most people marry before 30, where a woman who lives by…

Ever since Captain Kirk said ‘Beam me up, Scotty’ on his communicator back in 1960s Star Trek, the mobile phone has evolved from the stuff of science fiction to the…