Exotic Caribbean Meaning To Life

• Hispaniola - quite the little melting pot! 2 weeks ago Friday, May 5, 2006 The last time (February 15th) we were on the subject we more or less took the story of visitors to our island of Hispaniola up to one of those black-historical points in human history: the near extermination of the Ta
• More American Philanthropy 2 weeks ago Saturday, April 29, 2006 We are back on the good-guy theme again. We are a full year on from those articles regarding Massachusetts Man and Philadelphia knight-in-shining-armor but true to the vein of those stories those two individuals have been up to their good deed tricks again this past...
• Where Capitalism can look like Communism 4 weeks ago Friday, April 21, 2006 Is supermarket shopping ever a frustrating experience for you? We thought you might like to try this story out for size about a good friend of ours who went on a little local expedition for a few simple goodies and came back with absolutely nothing. Just to emphasize the...
• Time Will Tell 1 month ago Wednesday, April 12, 2006 We are currently in ‘Semana Santa’- literally ‘Easter Week’ – which to the unfamiliar is a great festive time for the locals here in Boca Chica in particular. People arrive in droves from nearby Santo Domingo to enjoy the balmy breezes, the...
• West Viriginian Way to Deal with a Pressing Problem - Relax! 2 months ago Friday, March 31, 2006 The numbers of stories filtering out from our delightful Hispaniola island quite frequently point to the – shall we say – idiosyncratic nature of the local people, and we at Playa Vista freely admit to being complicit sometimes in adding fuel to the fire…...

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