Hell’s Half Acre

I stole some quiet moments this morning
stolen from the laundry
stolen from the study
stolen from the dishes.
The dishes did not complain – they wait in silence.
My coffee accompanied me to the beach
(never steal time from coffee)
and we sat and watched the slow roll of waves
and the sand slowly slipping back into vacated tortuga nests
and the god [...]

Oh man.  We need a vacation from our vacation.  It has been a crazy (for us) couple of weeks and I have absolutely NO IDEA where to start.  So I’ll bulletpoint.
I took 2-3 weeks off diet and exercise (I honestly have no idea how long) and only gained 2 kilos.  So yesterday, when i found [...]

For over a year, ever since we bought here in Quintana Roo, we’ve been looking at Merida as a place we’d like to live.  Mostly it was the architecture and the colonial feel and the prospect of real estate investments.  After spending almost 2 weeks in that city we found ourselves falling head over heels.  [...]

When I started on this journey of what is causing the mareo (dysequilibrium) I began with a visit to the hyperbaric chamber in Playa del Carmen, where the doc there comes highly recommended.  Both times I visited him he said he strongly suspected an inner ear thing but couldn’t pin it down and that I [...]

What a day of living!  I started a tradition this year with Jesse’s birthday that I really should continue here, but every day here in Merida is so packed full of experiences (compared to life in PaaMul) that it isn’t enough to simply report the happenings of the birthday girl.  But maybe I’ll try…
Of all [...]

It only took 3 doctor visits for me to get an MRI.  The ENT consult at Hospiten in Playa recommended one, the Neuro at Hospiten in Cancun also recommended one and the ENT/Neuro I saw here in Merida very strongly advised I get over myself, listen to the past 3 doctors and get the damn [...]

We spent yesterday working on Jamie’s medical issues because (awww…) my recommended doctor was out healing the poor. 
We headed to Star Medica, which was a journey of its own.  We got lost at least 3 times, stopped at a Comex (paint) store to get directions where the guy even drew me a map [...]

I remembered from driving to Valladolid realizing that I have a certain loyalty to Quintana Roo (the state we live in) as, upon viewing a highway sign which states, “In Yucatan (state) we keep our roads clean” I immediately thought, “Well, in Quintana Roo, we do the SAME!”.  So I guess I consider myself a [...]

We have always instilled a strong sense of respect for the kids inner voices and tried to encourage a real honing of identification.  We attended Kidpower workshops with the boys and read Gavin de Becker’s Protecting the Gift.   We have always told them that their inner voices are much more important than anyone’s outside [...]

Just a quick update – we’re not going to Merida until this weekend.  We just couldn’t get everything organized in time and figured it would be better, in the event that Jamie will require surgery (and I would require a brain transplant ha ha), to be there at the beginning of the week.  So sue [...]