Rather than acknowledge the sn*w, here’s a photo of a chicken by a pool in Panama. When I took the photo I was working on the book Visiting Tom. I…View post

I have at best a passing knowledge of contemporary baseball, but when I was walking on a remote beach in Panama with my Panamanian brother-in-law last winter and this fairly…View post

We’d been there all day, chasing kids, playing in the surf, dancing around jellyfish… Told my brother-in-law (mi cunado) I needed “five minutes” and when I woke up the sun…View post

When it’s time to deliver a load of fish, you don’t want to waste a lot of time looking around for a dock: At the end of the day, the…View post

The dogs of Panama. Not dead, just not in a hurry.