Las Titas
In Tamarindo: bringing three cultures together
Tamara Osnovikova, 82, is a great-grandmother. Her granddaughter, Katerina Veeden, is the mother of twins Michael and Michelle. The twins call their great-grandmother “Baba,”...
Inspired by Emma Obando Stanley and her two grandmothers, one Costa Rican, one a U.S. citizen. This column was published as part of our...
October, month of heavy rains and floods. According to the old song that my grandmother Rosa used to sing, "of all the moons,...
In Puriscal: the land of oblivion
Doña María Isabel is 85 years old. Or 70. Or “I'm past 90.” Or she just says, “Wow, I'm too old to count.” The...
A crisis where cause and solution are the same: caregiving in Costa Rica
We all know it. Without caregivers, nothing else in a country works. Our societies don’t improve; our economies don’t prosper; inequalities and injustices increase....
Podcast in Spanish: How can a city become age-friendly?
Today on our podcast, Mónica Quesada Cordero reads a story in Spanish from our February 2022 edition, Long Live CR, which focused on healthy...
Building dreams of community life: Cohousing for the elderly
“What if we lived together? What if when we retire, we look for a plot or an abandoned building, and build a place where...
In Palmares, a bridge among four generations
Beatriz Lizano Alvarado will soon turn 65, but she has a full-time job. In fact, she has two. She is responsible for her mother,...
Winner of the First Honorable Mention at Costa Rica's Pío Víquez National Journalism Award 2022.
Eugenia.
Tamara.
Gustavo.
Beatriz.
Rocío y Enrique.
Every morning in Costa Rica they get up...
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Atenas: from burning trash to environmental awareness
The canton of Atenas is known as the home of “the best climate in the world”—thanks to a 1968 article in National Geographic—and as...
