Almost 5 years ago, our gardener gave me a couple of avocados from an old tree in his yard. At the time he told me he feared it would be the...

Never in my wildest imagination did I ever envision being the wedding planner for more than 70 couples! This all started as a way to work ...

Yesterday, we were all set to to finish the Canadian Bacon we had put in a brine last Saturday. We just needed to smoke it for an hour, or t...

Gringos -- Swallow your pride and make your cameras, smart phones, tablets and luggage gear look like crap if you want to radically lower th...

In 2008, we finished the construction on our little casita and this became our vacation home until we retired in 2011. For the first couple ...

I just love doing home maintenance -- NOT!  I get a really special "attitude" toward home ownership when the maintenance involves ...

A few months ago I jumped in to participate in a "Pay it Forward" initiative on Facebook. I posted the information about the initi...

A Friday ritual is becoming very popular with the local expat crowd here in Atenas. It started out with just two or three folks meeting at a...