Category: Love in Translation
After the birth of my daughter in San José in 2013, I began a blog called “The Dictionary of You,” letters to her about the language and culture I loved in my adopted country of Costa Rica. The blog spawned a column at The Tico Times called “Maeology” and a book, “Love in Translation: Letters to My Costa Rican Daughter,” available worldwide on Amazon. Read on for more.
For my father, who loved Costa Rica
Your brother’s my cousin’s ex-girlfriend’s son? A Costa Rican screenplay
A conversation with Joe Baur on ‘Without a Path’
From Nature Landings: Wild Osa, wild words
4 life lessons best learned from living abroad
A tale of two Costa Ricas: hope, inequality and an hour on the train
Why learning another language keeps us young
The power of immigrant vision
katherine stanley obando 