Monthly Archives: December 2022

New Year’s Eve.  Fireworks will light up the skies across the world tonight.  Exuberant celebration will abound.  As a “Playa Girl”, I am struck by the Mexican tradition of Año Nuevo.  At the stroke of midnight 12 grapes are eaten, each representing a wish for the New Year.  Symbolically grapes have an incredible history.  Some … Continue reading »

What do you see in this picture?  A face or a vase? Such a simple exercise yet so profound in the insight it provides.  Danish Psychologist, Edgar Rubin conducted extensive scientific study on this phenomenon.  You see what your “perceptual experience” feeds back to you. Most of what you see is “in your head”.  Your … Continue reading »

If you walk down the beach in Playa del Carmen you will see many things that are unexpected and unaccountable.   Shells are always in abundance.  After a storm you might find a huge piece of driftwood large enough to build a lovely table.  Other days you might find a diamond ring, lost perhaps from a … Continue reading »

In the Caribbean there are currents that flow beneath the surface of the water.  You can start out in one spot and in a matter of minutes you are half way down the beach from where you started.   If you allow the current to carry you the view can change in a magical, mystical way.  … Continue reading »

Discovering your Playa Purpose is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.  Everyone has a playa purpose in life . . .  a unique gift or special talent to give to others.  A Playa Purpose is a being talent, not a doing “thang”.   When you blend your unique talent with service to others, … Continue reading »

Take Time for Yourself Today Phew!  You made it through Christmas.  Now it’s time to face down the week before New Years.   Historically for many this is a week where New Year’s Resolutions are decided upon, party planning begins for that elusive midnight celebration and review of the previous year is the staple for new … Continue reading »

Christmas is an inside Job On this holiest of holidays I reflect on what we are celebrating this day.  Although there is an array of celebrations this month, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas and more, our modern-day Christmas celebration in the West can be traced back to St. Nicholas the patron saint of school children. In all … Continue reading »

Holidays are the highest season in the Mayan Rivera.  Throngs of vacationers are hitting the beaches this week along the outlying arm of the Caribbean.  They come from all over the world.  Americans especially flock here to take the chill off of the eastern seaboard, the mid west and the chilly South. These vacationers will … Continue reading »

On my first trip to Playa del Carmen in 2002, walking the then unpaved streets and marveling at this Paradise I now call home, I knew then I wanted to live here. After spending every conceivable holiday, including Christmas, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, the Super Bowl and numerous weekends, I moved to Playa for 8 … Continue reading »