[caption id="attachment_101132" align="alignleft" width="233"] Andrés Madrigal / The Tico Times[/caption] It’s a beautiful, sunny morning in Santa Ana; birds are singing, the river gently flows, mountains surround…
"Following vivid dreams and color signposts, she left New Mexico at the height of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis for a life she could never have planned…
If you've sampled social media at any time during the past couple of months, you've probably tapped your toes to “Soy Yo” (“I'm Me”). The music video for…
Costa Rica ranked very high in yet another international survey in terms of quality of life and ease of settling in for foreign residents. The Expat Insider…
ATENAS, Alajuela -- "Miller?" a woman holding a long list called out. "They're here somewhere," a voice called back from the dense crowd. "I don't know where exactly…
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Sometime between cave dwelling and Airbnb, human beings managed to develop not just the concept of private property but also the notion of private space. We developed…
On the streets of midtown Manhattan, another cloudy, muggy mid-week work day was wrapping up. Inside one event space, however, a very colorful Tico scene was just…
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For anyone who grew up in Alajuela, April conjures up images of flag-filled parades, where the humming of the drums and the whistling of the flutes merge…
