Wow! So, so crazy and I'm glad you are okay. Amnesia holy cow.

This is so adorable and you are such a good mom.

I love all of them. Sorry about your arm! That's traumatic. That poor, pissed off kitty. Please keep the lullaby therapy going.

It's just wearing on me, and you're spot on, about financially meshing with someone. 

She's gonna love the aquarium!

Hey everyone! We’ve reached the “cats and wine” stage of the evening. I’m trying to devote at least one hour each day to learning Spanish. Man, when I think how relatively easy it was to learn beginner Spanish in high school, and Italian in college, it makes my current pace of learning roughly a slow slog. Alas.

Hi fellow Scrantonian! 

Short of his neighbor beating the crap out of him, how do you believe the Democrats could make Rand Paul shut his mouth? And how can we get Cruz and Kennedy to stop talking, too? Can you make my sister stop saying shit, too?

My flight to Central America was cancelled in March, a day and a half before I was moving to Panama permanently, for now. I was stuck in PA until November, and especially in the earlier, very frightening days of the pandemic, Dr. Rachel briefed us every day on TV. She was amazing: smart and competent and honest and so…

What about Lisa Rinna?

Wie’s comments were devastating, and spot on. The motherfucking cousin-fucker is a creepy pervert. How dare he look up women’s skirts, blame them for his actions, and then diss their clothing as not sufficiently modest. Isn’t that just what poor -quality men of that age do, though.

I am an Old. I got my hair done/did today, and the thirty ish hair stylist did my hair in a center part. I am quite on trend in my little town in the mountains of Central America and delightedly so!

I LOVE THIS

Our world scares me sometimes.

When I saw RHONJ this week, I thought Jackie was clearly making an analogy and equivalence, because it's what Theresa would understand. Anyone else?

I’ll never understand it. I mean, the reason these rich expat oldsters aren’t crippled by childhood polio is that we got rid of it via vaccine. So why now? Why the defiance and stupidity and faux invisibility?

2021 we come out of hiding and start living again.

Things are slowly starting to open up here, and the curfew is now ten o’clock, instead of earlier. And while there are some opportunities to meet people, like pickleball and drum circles, a lot of gringoes unfortunately do not wear masks inside, or wear them on their chins, and I just won’t let myself risk Covid bc at…

So good!

This area is considered the bread basket of Panama, so it’s dotted with farms, many on steep slopes. There’s also a lot of makework; in the US, things are staffed lean and we are used to that, and here, there are five people working at the same time in the tiny corner coffeeshop. Thanks for the thoughts!