Nine years since Hurricane Maria. The event that changed our lives forever.

With the surf contest coming to Arecibo next month, I’m reminded of my days as Surfer Mom. This is a revised and edited version of something I wrote in 2009. Photo from ISA World Surfing Games 2026 Facebook page I loved being a surfer mom. I used to be a karate mom...then a basketball, volleyball and dance mom… but I definitely enjoyed being a surfer mom the most. Sometimes I wish I could be an actual surfer, but taking a tumble as a child scarred me for life. Sand in my s

picture from Marvin Fonesca's book: "Museo al Aire Libre" foto: EFE I just reposted a blog I wrote years ago and here's another one which I think is relevant today. ************************************************************************************** I have always wanted this blog to reflect my feelings about living in Puerto Rico and yet it's been almost a year since I’ve written. I keep my TJ Ranch Facebook page up to date and try to inform people about Puerto Rico in ge

Resistance T Shirt This was a blog I wrote three or four years ago. I think I was mildly optimistic then. I wrote this before I had ever heard of Esencia, the proposed $2 billion luxury resort in Cabo Rojo or plans to develop the central karst region, or Act 82 of 2026 which restricts the ability of citizens and communities to challenge or halt government authorized development in court. In both the United States and Puerto Rico business/money wins. It doesn't seem to matte

This is a good place to see how TJ Ranch evolved. 1984 I came to Puerto Rico in 1984. At thirty two I had no idea I’d be writing this story forty years later. I had planned to stay six months to put an addition on the “vacation house” I bought with my sister. My ‘casita del campo ‘ sat in the center of the island on 42 acres of jungle. After a year in the mountains, my vacation house became my permanent home. Tony Tony lived in Boqueron. He worked in restaurants all over town

From the history of TJ Ranch in the blog As Time Goes By, Reflexions tells the story of how I've seen the changes in Puerto Rico over the years. What was Puerto Rico Like Forty Years Ago? During the election season, my favorite journalist, Bianca Graulau, wrote an Instagram story which I can’t quote, but she said that the youth of today doesn't know the Puerto Rico of their parents and grandparents . The children of the last two decades have grown up with austerity measures a