Check out our story about why Americans love Costa Rica so much. It was that day in Tortuguero, Costa Rica when, from our small flat-bottomed boat we saw spider and white-throated capuchin monkeys, three species of toucans, iridescent iguanas, walk-on-water Jesus Christ lizards, Day-Glo butterflies with wingspans wide as your head, several large caimans, frogs…
Many of us grew up when neighborhood american drugstores sold little but drugs and sodas. In the 1940s, as we perched on green vinyl stools at a marble-topped soda fountain slurping our Green Rivers, who knew that from such humble beginnings would spring Walgreen’s and McDonald’s? My drugstore, at the corner of Cedar, Meacham and…
Look at any outdoor photograph of American men taken before 1960 and you’ll see every last man wearing a hat. Be it a fedora or homburg, slouch or porkpie, Panama or boater, hats used to be as essential as shoes, adding a fine flourish to proper manly appearance. Remember? The hat was so common that…
I Am Your Worst Nightmare. I am a BAD American. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid level governmental functionary be it Democratic or Republican! I’m in touch with my feelings and I like it that way, damn it! I think owning a gun doesn’t make you…
The Charm of Pickleball Toc… toc… toc. That’s the subdued sound of a sport called pickleball, the fastest-growing physically active sport in the United States. And why is pickleball more popular today than hyperbole at a Trump rally? Well, after two years of playing the game regularly, I’ve figured out the true frenzy for this…
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