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The Appeal of the "Underdog"
Costa Rica’s National Soccer Team It’s so exciting to be in Costa Rica this summer, with the national soccer team carving out its little piece of history in the World Cup. A couple weeks ago, even Costa Ricans were doubtful that their team would make it past the first round. Group D, which included Uruguay,…
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The Bridges We Build
La Selva, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica Notebook: Today we saw Peccaries Bullet ants Iguanas Stingless bees Motmots Poison dart frogs Howler monkeys Strangler figs Cycads and palms Pipers and Melastomes The Kapok (also called Ceiba) tree with its pale towering trunk Inch worms Millipedes Crazy fruits…
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NAPIRE 2014
Me and one of my old friends at Las Cruces. The semester at Avila has ended, and all of the sudden I find myself in Costa Rica preparing for my next NAPIRE summer. Those of you who follow my blog may remember that every other year I return to Las Cruces Biological Station in southern…
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Rediscovering EOLYN
I have had the greatest pleasure these past few weeks of listening to the new audio edition of EOLYN. Read by the incomparable Darla Middlebrook, this interpretation made me laugh, and then cry, in all the right moments. It filled me with joy and fear, love and heartbreak, warmth, humor, friendship and loss in ways…
K.R. Gastreich, Author
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K. R. Gastreich, Author 