avoiding the fishbowl

Hi everyone, As most of you who are reading this already know, I live in the jungle in Panama with an indigenous community called the Embera...

About a month ago my good friend in the community, Juan Carlos(or Juanca for short) bestowed upon me my first ever very own baby chickens! T...

Literally. I got a new roof(or at least, 1/2 of a new roof) last week and the only thing to do with the remains of my old one was to set it ...

A lot has happened in the last month, but I don't think anyone would have the patience to actually read all that there is write so I...

So the longer I'm here the more normal my life seems to become. And by that i mean the less strange things feel. When people ask me what...

Now for more on Panamanian fun. The newest hippest style shirt to wear these days in Panama is the extreme graphic tee. The formula for a go...

Bad news, my external hard drive and my camera memory card have a virus. No new pictures for a while, even though I have some good ones if I...

Well, my old camera kicked the bucket, so I got a new one yesterday. I'm real excited, and that's all I'm gonna say. Also, the ...

So the first photo is just a pretty picture of the sun coming up during the boat ride. The second photo contains excactly what every person ...