Here are several more photos from Barbados, a lovely, lovely island of friendly people. Barbados is a venue in both Distant Cousin and Distant Cousin: Reincarnation.
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Pilot episode done! First season being written! But you can read it NOW. See below!
A brand new 2nd edition of volume 1, with photos and updates at a lower price: Distant Cousin Arrival!
(Volume 7)
It's Easy!
Television series in development!
Pilot episode done! First season being written! But you can read it NOW. See below!
To anticipate the series!
A brand new 2nd edition of volume 1, with photos and updates at a lower price: Distant Cousin Arrival!
The Distant Cousin Blog
Welcome to the blog of Ana Darcy Méndez, the one extraterrestrial alien you would love to meet!
Ana's blog, which is a companion to the Distant Cousin stories, is maintained for Ana by Dr. Al Past. It it you will find background on Ana's native language, Luvit, an extended interview with Ana on her the history and culture of her native planet, Thomo, and photographs, maps, and more to accompany the books.
Ana's blog, which is a companion to the Distant Cousin stories, is maintained for Ana by Dr. Al Past. It it you will find background on Ana's native language, Luvit, an extended interview with Ana on her the history and culture of her native planet, Thomo, and photographs, maps, and more to accompany the books.
Just for fun you will find samples of Ana's mostly successful poly-national cooking experiments, exhibits of our arts and crafts that fascinate her, and selections of our poetry and music that appeals to extraterrestrials, Mexican-American proverbs and language games from her family's life, puzzles, ideas on early childhood education, astronomical news, and photos of cats, her favorite earthly animals.
The sections below cover (1) the books, (2) photographs, (3) the maps, (4) Ana's interviews and responses to readers, (5) her recipes, (6) her favorite poems, art, and (7) music.
Distant Cousin 7: Santa Muerte
(Volume 7)
Distant Cousin: Santa Muerte
Distant Cousin: Two Worlds Daughter (volume 6)
Distant Cousin: Two Worlds Daughter
Distant Cousin: Recirculation (Volume 5)
- Summary
- First comments from readers
- More comments on Recirculation & the whole series
- Excerpt
- Distant Cousin: Recirculation, Amazon Kindle edition
- Distant Cousin: Recirculation, Amazon paperback
- Distant Cousin: Recirculation Excerpt
- Distant Cousin: Recirculation: Photos
- Photos: pottery from Mata Ortiz
- Distant Cousin: Recirculation Maps
Distant Cousin: Regeneration (Volume 4)
Distant Cousin: Regeneration (Volume 4)
Distant Cousin: Reincarnation (Volume 3)
Distant Cousin: Reincarnation (Volume 3)
Distant Cousin: Repatriation (Volume 2)
Distant Cousin: Repatriation (Volume 2)
Distant Cousin Arrival (Volume 1)
Distant Cousin Arrival (Volume 1)
- Distant Cousin: Watch the Trailer!
- Summary
- Distant Cousin Wins PODBRAM's Most Pleasurable Read Award!
- Reviews
- Review @ BloggerNews
- Review @ PODBRAM
- Review @ HIghSpirits
- Review @ Shirley Bahlmann Biz
- Excerpts
- DC1 at Amazon (paperback)
- DC1 Kindle edition
- DC1 at Smashwords (for all e-readers & computers)
- What Ana Darcy First Saw
- Satellite photos of southern New Mexico and west Texas
- Places of Ana's Early Adventures
- Where we first meet Matt
- Durham, NC: Dr. Charles Hodge's House
The Distant Cousin Handbook (See Categories Immediately Below)
- Film/TV Rights to Distant Cousin sold!
- Reader comments ("You suck!" A Hoot!)
- Another reader says "You suck!"
- Wheelchair Mommy guest blogs about her distant cousin!
- The problem with REAL books
- The 10 year old and the journalist
- Distant Cousin a Movie?
- Guess who's reading Distant Cousin?
- "Refreshingly different!"
- It takes a tooter to toot the horn!
- Distant Cousin predicts the future--EIGHT times
- So you don't like science fiction?
- Writers Comment
- Who would read a book on a cell phone??
- Reader Suffers Distant Cousin Separation Syndrome!
- A Heartwarming Connection: Ana helps a reader
- A Reader Crying in the Subway?
- Readers email as they read
- Thanks! and a mystery....
- Readers Write: the whole series, and DC4
- A Bride's Complaint about Distant Cousin
- Is Distant Cousin for you?
- A Reader's Moving Testimonial
- Update on the Moving Experience
- Even more reader comments!
- First comments on Distant Cousin: Recirculation (DC5)
- KINDLE Owners: Add a Distant Cousin Skin!
- A Kitten Demonstrates Christmas Shopping!
- Unhappy Reader Comments!
- Ana's Welcome to the People of Earth
- Does it matter what order you read them in?
- Other Works by Al Past: Music; Photography
- Welcome to Amazonians!
WHERE TO BUY
- New to the books? Meet Ana Darcy!
- So you don't like science fiction?
- Is Distant Cousin for you?
- Why would anyone read Distant Cousin on an iPhone?
- Distant Cousin, Kindle edition
- Distant Cousin: Repatriation, Kindle edition
- Distant Cousin: Reincarnation, Kindle edition
- Distant Cousin: Regeneration, Kindle edition
- Distant Cousin: Recirculation, Kindle edition
- Distant Cousin, paperback @ Amazon
- Distant Cousin: Repatriation, paperback @ Amazon
- Distant Cousin: Reincarnation, paperback @ Amazon
- Distant Cousin: Regeneration, paperback @ Amazon
- Distant Cousin: Recirculation, paperback @ Amazon
- Distant Cousin for Apps!
Photographs
Photographs
- Pictures: What Ana First Saw (DC1)
- Pictures: What Ana Saw Soon After That (DC1)
- More Ana's First Sights: The Davis Mountains, Fort Bliss
- Pictures: What Ana Might Have Seen After THAT (DC1)
- Meet Ana Darcy!
- El Paso from Scenic Drive
- Pictures: MORE Freeway Murals!
- Pictures: Other Nearby Murals; calling Diego Rivera!
- Pictures: Fort Davis Calvary Post (DC1)
- Pictures: Barbados (DC1, DC3)
- Pictures: Barbados, Ana's first official home on Earth
- Picture: Barbados home (DC1)
- Pictures: The West Indies. pt. 1 (DC 1)
- Pictures: West Indies, pt. 2 (DC1)
- What does Ana's Mesilla Valley neighborhood look like?
- Pictures: From Langtry, TX (DC1)
- Pictures: New Mexico's Mesilla Valley (DC1-4)
- Pictures: More of Mesilla, Plaza, and Nearby Desert (DC1-4)
- Pictures: More of Mesilla & Area (DC1-4)
- Ana's Favorite Restaurant: La Posta
- New Mexican food!
- Bhutanese/Extraterrestrial architecture discovered in West Texas
- Picture: San Albino Church in Mesilla Plaza (DC3, 4)
- Pictures: Southern New Mexico
- Pictures: El Paso, New Mexican Food
- Pictures: Pincushion cacti (DC 3)
- The Trans-Mountain Road, scenic photos
- Picture: Durham, North Carolina (DC1, 4)
- Pictures: The Trans-Mountain Road from El Paso to New Mexico
- An Extraterrestrial Photo Puzzle
- Art by Ana's Earthly Ancestors?
- Ana's Exhibit of Folk Toys of the World!
- Ana Celebrates El Día de los Muertos
- The humor in El Dia de los Muertos
- MORE Dia de los Muertos figurines!
- MORE Dia de los Muertos figurines!
- Wearable art from Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador
- Pictures: Peru, from Distant Cousin Regeneration (DC4)
- Ana Visits an Art Gallery: Arpilleras from Ecuador
- A wearable arpillera!
- More Arpilleras from Ecuador
- Arpilleras up close: from the side
- MORE molas!
- Kitten Goes Christmas Shopping
- Pictures: KINDLE Distant Cousin Skin
- Pictures: The Great Ana Darcy Shoe Quiz!
- Pictures: Answers to The Great Ana Darcy Shoe Quiz
- Ana Loves Hummingbirds, part 1
- Ana Loves Hummingbirds, part 2
- Christmas Cats!
- Kitten puzzle
- Baby Kittens & Mama
- Cats! Caracal kittens!
- A serval mom-to-be, and serval kittens
- Serval and caracal play on a bed: video!
- Kitties! A Caracal, a Lynx, and Servals!
- Kitties! Servals, a caracal, and a house cat!
- Picture: A Very Sweet Lynx
- Picture: a jaguarundi (an onza)
- Servals from kittens to adults
- A Brand New Litter of Serval Kittens
- The Super Kitty Issues a Caution
- Picture: Serval kittens 1
- Picture: Serval kittens 2
- Picture: Serval kittens 3
- Picture: Serval kittens 4 (10 weeks old)
- Pictures: Even More Kitties!
- A Bad Cat, A VERY Bad Cat
- MORE kitties: a Lynx, Servals, & a Tiger Cub
- Barn Kitties!
- Baby fennec fox! Cute!
- Baby fennec fox kits becoming domesticated
- Fennec foxes playing with other pets! Video clips!
Maps
Ana communicates:
Ana's Interviews and Responses to Readers
- Meet Ana!
- The First Interview with Ana Darcy
- Ana's Native Language, Luvit, Examined
- Ana on Earth's climate crisis
- Ana shows us some Luvit proverbs from the planet Thomo
- How can Ana not know how old she is??
- Ana's Thoughts about our Thanksgiving Day
- Ana Darcy on Gracefulness, Cats, & DNA
- Ana's thoughts on meteorite strikes
- Two suns vs. two moons
- Habitable Planets Discovered Nearby? Duh!
- A salute to Ana and the Transit of Venus
- Why does Ana NOT laugh at the Roswell UFO scare?
- Danger!? Don't speak to aliens!
- Ana's space pod sighted near Area 51?
- Ana Darcy on Area 51
- Ana Darcy on Men on the Moon
- What does Ana think about UFOs & nuclear missiles?
- Ana Darcy on Climate Change
- Ana's Running Tip for Marathoners
- Ana Asks Us Two Questions
- A UN Ambassador in Case Aliens Visit??
- Ana's Questions Answered
- Ana's Language Questions For Us
- Ana's Language Questions Answered
- Ana reminds us to be thankful for teachers
- Ana's response to dropping SAT scores
- Math education and Ana's children
- Ana's Children and Bilingualism: 1
- Earthly Children and Bilingualism:2
- Bilingual & Biliterate Toddlers: Preliminaries (3)
- Early Reading Fostering Bilingualism: 4
- Mexican-American-Extraterrestrial family language games
- Ana and son explain a card trick
- Ana & Julio explain a cool math puzzle
- A Riddle for Kindlers & Others
- A Spanish Puzzle About New Mexico
- Answers to Spanish Puzzle
Recipes & Food
- Recipe: Outstanding, quick Mendez family salsa
- Recipe: Authentic Mendez Chuckwagon Frijoles
- A Milder Version of the Méndez Family's Frijoles Recipe
- Mexican frijoles with Anasazi beans
- A SPANISH tortilla??
- Ana discovers what the frittata is REALLY good for!
- Ana's Chinese/TexMex/Italian fritattas
- Czech Kolaches: Pastry!
- Ana bakes a French children's "Unit cake"
- Cranberry-Orange Relish: a poem!
- Ana narrowly avoids DISASTER in the kitchen
- Tortilla Soup, Mexican Soups, & More for Everyone
- Cooks vs. Bakers: A Theory
- Distant Cousin Wine? Yes!
- A Rather Strange Salad
- Edible Roses
- Pizzete: Italian appetizers!
- Recipe: Bruschetta, NOT Biscotti
- It Begins: Pizza Dough & Pizza Sauce
- Ana Makes Fresh Mozarella!
- Pizza Experiment #1
- Pizza Experiment #2: black eyed peas
- Pizza Experiment #3
- Pizza Experiment #4
- A New Year Pizza Experiment
- Thai-style crepes for the Holidays!
- Recipe Challenge: Thai-style Coconut Shrimp
- Recipe: Korean Carne al Pastor
- An Idea for a Nutricious Dessert
- Recipe: Gentle, Tropical Mexican Alcoholic Beverage
- Recipe: Puzzle from DC: Reincarnation, part 1
- Recipe: Puzzle, part 2
- Recipe: Puzzle, part 3
Ana's Favorite Poems and Art
- Dead link? Workaround here.
- Ana's Favorite Poem
- Ana's Second-favorite Poem
- A Poem about Caring For Others
- Poem: a wife's secret moment with her husband
- Two fine poems about children strike Ana hard
- "The Canticle of the Sun," by Saint Francis of Assisi
- Art by Ana's Earthly Ancestors?
- A poem about our daughters makes Ana teary-eyed
- Ana Sees the Art of Claudia Quintero
- Ana discovers Panamanian molas
- Going for a Walk in the Universe
- An anniversary poem for an extraterrestrial's husband
- A Poem about Gravity, and Centers
- Poem: perspective is everything!
- The World Begins at the Kitchen Table
- A Poem about Wading in and Getting Things Done
- Can You Solve Ana's Favorite Puzzle Poem?
- Mexican handmade dolls!
- Incredible pottery from Mata Ortiz (DC5)
- Mexican folk masks!
- Ana Experiences Ecuadorian Textile Art
- More Ecuadorian Arpilleras
- Two Love Poems
- A Valentine's Day Love Poem
- A Love Poem to a Cat
- Learning Peace from a Cat
- An unforgettable cat poem
- The World's Oldest Cat Poem?
- A mysterious 18th century cat poem
- A Poem about TWO Cats!
- A Nursery Rhyme with Kittens
- Poem: Explaining Relativity to the Cat
- Ana celebrates El Día de los Muertos
- Ana's Exhibit of Folk Toys of the World
- Mexican-American Dichos (Proverbs) from New Mexico
- Mexican-American dichos, chapter 2
- MORE Grandmother's dichos: Chapter 3!
- Spanish Nursery Rhymes from a Grandmother
- More Mexican-American nursery rhymes, song, game
- Mexican-American-Extraterrestrial Family Language Games
- A Poem Makes Ana Cry
- Matt recovers from the flu; finds a poem about feeling well again
- Art cars! For Ana's son, NOT Ana!
- NOT one of Ana's favorite love poems!
- A Chinese Tongue-Twister Makes Ana Laugh
- A Poem about Commercial Air Travel
- A Love Poem About Carpentry
- Poem: What She Taught Me
- Poem: One of Ana's Favorite Sonnets
- A Gardening Poem That Reminds Matt of his Wife
- A poem about baking bread
- An ode to tomatoes
- Recipe Poem: Cranberry-Orange Relish!
- A poem teaches Ana about artichokes
- A Favorite Poem about Vegetables!
- A poem about a salad that scared Ana!
- A Poem about Love and the Music of the Lute
Ana's Favorite Music
- A Note about the Distant Cousin theme song
- World Premier: Partita on Simple Gifts
- Bach's Little Fugue, BWV 573 as a duet!
- A Piece that Ana Says Sounds Like the Engine of the Galaxy
- A Bach Fugue for You and Your Duet Buddy
- Ana's Musical Puzzler
- Meet Ana's Favorite Musician!
- The Answer to Ana's Musical Puzzler
- Rebecca Pechefsky plays from Bach, BWV 829
- A Sousa march for the Transit of Venus!
- Ana loves Nora, the Piano Playing Cat
- Ana's Musical Palindrome
- Why Ana Loves Fugues
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- The Great Ana Darcy Shoe Quiz!
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- Pizza Brainstorm #2 of 3: Black-eyed Pea-zza!
- Pizza Brainstorm #3 of 3: Leeks & Potatoes!
- Old Award, New Seal!
- Ana Finds a Poem About Air Travel
- A Bibliographical Word from Ana's Editor
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