Baby neck smells, Baby neck cheese: Your questions answered.

I’ve only been blogging for a month, and don’t know much, but I do know this: the web is gaga for baby neck cheese. How do I know this? I mentioned the smelly baby neck cheese problem we’ve been having with our twins in a brief paragraph on a blog post weeks ago, and damn [...]

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Gnarly robots, napping babies, and the Tour de France

My robot vacuum has really stepped up its game. Its one of those “Roomba,” disk-shaped vacuums that makes cute little sounds and bee-bops around the room on its own accord. I haven’t used it in recent weeks because we ended up caving and buying a regular, clunky old vacuum when the Roomba couldn’t keep up [...]

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Orange lava, Inca festivals, Robot babies

We took T to see the spouting lava a few days ago. The twins were babysat for only the second time in their lives, and I was nervous as hell about it, but it all went fine. I’ve been itching to see the molten lava since we moved to this island, but it’s always been [...]

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Worms and Valentines

Yesterday I walked down the little dirt path to my mailbox, peered inside the open lid, and got quite a surprise. There, on top of an L.L. Bean catalog, was a writhing pile of worms. Skinny, black writhing jungle worms. Gross. I used the catalog to fling them out and began to ponder how they [...]

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Jungle House Guests

House guests are a funny thing, and jungle house guests are even funnier.
Back in New England my experiences with house guests were mixed, but often resulted with the guest or guests eating all my food and insulting my kitten. House guests are like that. Here in the jungle, its a new set of rules. In [...]

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Riots, Mayhem, Babies crawling naked through the jungle…

There is a large department store on this island, everyone in America knows its name. We’ve all been there too. Its huge, its sprawling, its everywhere in the States, and I used to be extremely snooty about it. I don’t shop there, I’d say. That store is what’s wrong with America. That was back when [...]

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Pineapple Thievery

There have been rumors of pineapple theft circling the neighborhood. That’s what passes for crime/news around here. Our next door neighbors have been hit on multiple occasions.  I’m outraged on their behalf because pineapples are really difficult to grow (I’ve heard). They don’t grow on trees you know! Ha, bet you didn’t know that. I [...]

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Jungledad is in big trouble

I made the most gruesome discovery yesterday. No, not tropical flying jungle cockroaches this time.
I was about to make coffee (life’s blood when in times of temporary single-parenthood) when I noticed the coffeemaker smelled a little funky. After a bit of sniffing I zeroed in on the coffee pot itself. I unscrewed the top and [...]

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Cockroaches and temporary single-parenthood

I met another Mommy and her way too adorable 3yr old daughter for a picnic yesterday.  We shared our cockroach stories of woe and laughed about the disgustingness of it all. Geckos in the house we can live with, giant centipedes even, with their poisonous legs, but the dreaded flying cockroach- no way.
Her cockroach initiation [...]

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There’s a furnace in my brain!

Back in the day I used to teach art with a rag-tag group of instructors, all of us broke and grimy. I was friendly then with a fellow instructor, known to many as a reality TV star back when there were only a handful of reality TV shows. When I remember him, 2 things come [...]

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