January-June 2017

my hike: Santa Ana Volcano, Cerro Verde National Park, El Salvador El Salvador’s highest volcano, also known as Ilamatepec, is crowned by a tiered crater with a small lake at…

We must find happiness to bear the suffering… [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]  

A 1994 short film by director Iara Lee, highlights the simplicity and grandeur of Japanese gardens and features a clash of realities, told through the dueling haiku poetry of Matsuo…

Soldiers transporting civilians in San Salvador in July 2015 after gangs ordered a bus strike. The New York Times explains: “With an estimated 60,000 members in a country of 6.5…

[Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.] Our mentally confused bad hair president! Trump Takes Propecia, A Hair-Loss Drug Associated With Mental Confusion… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-propecia-haiir-loss_us_58936376e4b06f344e4058a6 ————————–– Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries:…

Did you know fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world? http://upliftconnect.com/real-cost-of-that-dress/ [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]  

That greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of…

But the temperamental Moluccan cockatoo when angry/ unhappy can rip out all their beauty feathers so they become the ugliest birds around. Revenge against owners who cage them for their…

Santa Ana volcano [Photo credit: Iara Lee.]

I love EL SALVADOR pupusas: a pupusa is a traditional Salvadoran dish made of a thick, handmade corn tortilla prepared with a variety of fillings: Pupusa revuelta contains a blend…