Author Archives: Richard

Not a lot going on around here, but here’s the news. I’m about halfway through my 39 radiation treatments. So far, so good. I’m starting to have some minor side effects, but it’s fine. The side effects are supposed to … Continue reading →

We’ve been getting emails asking if we are okay, if the earthquake affected us. We and everyone else in Cuenca are fine. The quake was at least 300 km from here, up on the north coast, and only rattled everything … Continue reading →

I’ve gotten a couple of “Wazzup?” emails. It’s been a while, so here’s wazzup. Not much. No new news about my prostate cancer. I started the androgen deprivation therapy and am told radiation will start around the end of the … Continue reading →

I’ve had a high PSA for about 12 years and had 4 biopsies between 2004 and 2011, all negative. I’ve known I have an enlarged prostate for that long. It was getting harder to pee, so I went in and … Continue reading →

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! It’s been a couple of months again, I know. But not a lot has been going on again. That picture of us is from Myung’s birthday last month. We went out to Sole’s restaurant. … Continue reading →

Let’s say things were different. Let’s say I won the California lottery and could live this comfortably in the States, or inflation here reaches somewhere between Argentine and Venezuelan proportions so Ecuador becomes expensive for what you get. And let’s … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about what’s new and what’s old, about phases of my life and what the future looks like. Myung and I went to Quito last week. On the one hand, getting out of town was good. On the … Continue reading →

As you can see, it’s been since March that I wrote something. Life’s juuuust a bit slower than when we were traveling. Well, here’s an update, inasmuch as there is anything to update. We’ve got some routines, like, we get … Continue reading →

Hi y’all. We’ve become homebodies. We’re regular Cuencanos and have a place we plan to stay in for the foreseeable future. Our little house isn’t much, but it’s only $350/mo and suits us fine. It’s a little place behind the big house … Continue reading →

I decided to blog before we actually move to our new abode. Living here in Sofie’s and Hendry’s big house seems like a unit of time. We have been renting one of six or seven bedrooms in their big house. … Continue reading →