My world is a much smaller place these days.  Not in the way we’ve been hearing about for the last decade – how technology and social media have made the world so much more accessible… My world is really our house – and the very small area around us.  I’m still getting to town toKeep reading »

Yesterday I masked up, hopped in the golf cart, and headed to town to run most of our weekly errands.  (I really am starting to think I look my best in a mask.) Despite the Atlantic swirling with Tropical storms and depressions (it looks like TS Sally is going to form very soon), it isKeep reading »

What It’s REALLY Like To Be Self-Employed on Ambergris Caye (For Me) Or, perhaps more fitting-  FAIL:  How NOT to Stay Focused While Working From Home Ahhh to be self-employed on an island in the Caribbean…sounds like heaven, right?  Yes.  It is.  Very much so.  And I am eternally grateful and totally surprised to beKeep reading »

Last week, I headed from San Pedro to Belize City for a few hours of errands.  To head to some bigger stores, some stores with more selection and some spots with lower prices than we have in San Pedro. To buy things I need and then to look at things I don’t need…exactly.  Sometimes it’sKeep reading »

It’s breezy, warm, humid March on Ambergris Caye.  The “March Blow” is blowing (just one of the seasons that we have on the island) – and the sargasso is coming in. Instead of dwelling on that, I’ll show you some pictures I took in town yesterday.  As I waited for the water taxi to takeKeep reading »

I’ve been watching Marie Kondo’s new Netflix show and well…I’m hooked. If you don’t know Marie she has become quite the phenomena over the last few years – with her  international best selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. Tidy?  Decluttering and organizing?  SNOOZE.  I know!  The bookKeep reading »

Nothing monumental to report.  A day spent at home working on SEO for my blog…or thinking about working on SEO for my blog.  (SEO, I learned yesterday, is Search Engine Optimization, trying to make it easier for Google to find your blogs. And 7 years into this blogging thing, something I should learn about.) FrannieKeep reading »

A while ago I wrote a post called 15 Things No One Told You About Living in Belize – and then I updated it again a year or so later.  It’s a list of ideas that keep growing. Because the thing that I didn’t really GET when I moved down here in 2007 – just toKeep reading »

I really liked doing my July wrap-up – a month spent with visitors meant trips, crazy croc captures and lots and lots of good food.  August was relatively quiet as things slow down on the Caye and in Belize.  Here’s my August wrap-up brought to you a bit late – my first full month ofKeep reading »

Saturday morning at 3:45am, my alarm went off.  I threw off my big down comforter (it was in the 60s at night!) – time to head back home after 9 days in Barrington Rhode Island visiting my family. 6am Delta flight from tiny Providence airport to Atlanta (where everyone is SO important – in suchKeep reading »

6 years ago this week I started a blog without much of a plan.   I had moved to Ambergris Caye 4 years before – managed a bar for 3 and a half of those years – and was ready to get out and experience Belize.  I’d barely been off this rock… Note to allKeep reading »

Flip flops are an absolute necessity here on Ambergris Caye.  When I moved down here full time with my bag of 2 for $5US Old Navy flops, I realized quickly that I was going to need more.  The cheap sandals are great – lots of different colors, not a big deal if you lose oneKeep reading »

Last year, I wrote a post titled:  How To Get A Job In Belize.  It’s the #1 question that I receive from readers and look, I totally get it.  MAN do I get it. You visit Belize – everyone is so friendly, everyone speaks English, it’s gorgeous warm and inviting, there seem to be quiteKeep reading »

There are only a few more days left in 2016…and for me, this last holiday week often seems to be a blur.  All the planning, my seemingly countless posts about Christmas in Belize and events…POOF.  Blink and it will be the New Year. So before that happens I thought I’d say THANK YOU.  For reading,Keep reading »

The whole world was a bit shocked as we watched the US elect a new President.  As I imagined the stress, the sleepless days and nights, the pressure, the isolation, the unbearable stress, all to win what I would consider to be the very worst job in the world, I can’t help but be gratefulKeep reading »