Mom Visits My So-Called Life in the Dominican Republic Part ...

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On February 26 2012 11:09 PM | No Comment
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      Mom visited me in Cofresi, west of Puerto Plata, for just over a week. She would spend her mornings out on the peninsula painting where the dogs could run wild while I was at work kickstarting the day. I showed her how to ...Read More

Mom Visits My So-Called Life in the Dominican Republic

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On February 1 2012 02:05 AM | No Comment
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  I had been living in the Dominican Republic for seven months when my Mom came to visit me for the first time.  I had moved two dogs down with me, started my job, acquired another dog and moved three times ...Read More

How to Cure Island Fever

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On October 31 2011 08:18 PM | No Comment
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It might have been the tarantula in the shower, or maybe the frequent power outages during the most inconvenient times of the day. Or maybe it was the 4 days it took to replace the entire plumbing because you really ...Read More

Nostalgic Over Ice Cream

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On October 17 2011 09:37 AM | No Comment
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As the first born, my parents were very strict about my eating habits. They didn’t want a Tasmanian devil toddler jacked up on sugar and caffeine like so many other badly behaving children. So I was almost 3 years old ...Read More

Dogs and Earthquakes

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On October 3 2011 10:25 AM | No Comment
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Another Dominican Moment... On September 22, 2003 at 11:45 pm a 6.5 earthquake rocked the coastal town of Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic.  The epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km from Puerto Plata’s city center, but was felt as ...Read More

Dominican Life in Pictures

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On September 12 2011 05:04 AM | No Comment
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There's always something that catches our eye, makes us laugh or shake our head when we travel.  Even better, sometimes we get the chance to snap a picture of it, so we can share and/or prove that the story we ...Read More

A Special Whopper

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On September 5 2011 10:02 AM | No Comment
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Another Dominican Moment... It’s payday, and even though fast food joints are everywhere in the States, it’s a real treat to eat at Burger King once a month.  Puerto Plata only has two American fast food places: Burger King and Pizza ...Read More

How to Train Trainers to Train

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On August 29 2011 10:01 PM | No Comment
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Another Dominican Moment... I was trying to teach my trainers about reinforcements in training, but the concept was getting lost in translation in my broken Spanish and their broken English.  I decided to make a game of it along with prizes of ...Read More

Jazz vs. Rooster

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On April 14 2011 06:00 AM | No Comment
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Roosters cannot tell time.  At least, the rooster outside my window cannot tell time.  He crows at 11 pm, 2, 3, and 4 am, and then every 7 minutes until 6:30 am.  I'm living in the Dominican Republic, and my ...Read More

Willy, My First Hire

In DOMINICAN MOMENTS | By | On April 12 2011 06:37 AM | No Comment
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Willy was the first trainer I hired for my bird training department.  He was in his 30s and came highly recommended by one of the other animal training supervisors.  She had seen how attentively he worked in the housekeeping department, ...Read More
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