Erin Van Rheenen is a writer specializing in science, travel and the arts. She is the author of “Living Abroad in Costa Rica (a relocation guide)”, “The Manatee’s Big Day” (a bilingual children’s book), and has published essays, articles and stories in venues ranging from Fiction to The Los Angeles Times.
Arts September 29, 2014
It was a worlds-within-worlds, blow-your-commuting-brain kind of day. On the bus to work I was jammed up against a man thumb-flicking through email and Facebook posts. Words and photos flew by on his phone, until he stopped short at an image: a man’s hand, thumb-flicking the screen on... Read more
World View July 15, 2014
Why do travelers, presumably out for a good time, head to former island prisons like San Francisco’s Alcatraz, South Africa’s Robben Island or – my personal favorite – Costa Rica’s Isla San Lucas? Is it to contemplate the way societies mete out reward and... Read more