. Some nights enter our lives quietly and then stay with us forever—unexpected, unforgettable, and impossible not to smile about when we remember them. In my previous post, I wrote about the launch of The Art of Detachment in Madrid a couple of weeks ago—a magical evening surrounded by extraordinary people, where I had the […]
I’m 63 years old and alive and kicking. I’m in awe and thrilled to bits, currently trying to carry on with my life in the midst of the new normal. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, I’ve been staying at home most of [...]
At that time, San José was home to a living, breathing example of a dream come true. Two inspired youngsters, Jorge Jiménez and Giselle Zamora, ventured off to Italy 43 years ago where they blazed a trail, had a son named Esteban, [...]
A few years ago, when I first wrote this piece in the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, Apple had just broken ground in an innovative way that had nothing to do with technology, a new device or a new machine. Rather, they’d [...]
It was March 2008 when I programmed the rental car’s GPS to find the closest gas station. I was in Paris and had to fill the tank in order to avoid the steep cost of gas at the rental agency. Since I [...]
When I typed this question into Google, a whopping 241 million results came up. “Holy shit!” I thought to myself. Then, I tweaked my query slightly, swapping the word “world” for “life” and two million more search results were generated. Safe to [...]
My blogging debut was back in 2005 when I first wrote a few lines here, on the Slow Burn blog, named A Fuego Lento in Spanish. Since then, it has certainly lived up to its name; I’ve gone through periods of writing [...]
In October 2010 I accepted an invitation from Google to attend a meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. Its name intrigued me from the first moment and then completely captivated me: Zeitgeist. On YouTube I found a summary of that experience, which in some [...]
In November 2009 a lifelong dream came true, when I was able to see and photograph the great Mount Everest from a distance. I did so from the Kalapatar, which although it reaches an elevation of 5,550 meters in elevation, in the [...]
On Incae ‘s last visit to Tribu DDB, who rightfully become a tribe for life, at the close of the activity I was asked, “Did you know that there is another Tribu Group?”, and of course my answer was negative amidst immediate [...]
The country would be different if instead of a parliament we had an ombudsman(I heard this from Otto Peraza a few years ago). If we were given two ears that listen and a mouth that speaks, wouldn’t that be a clear and [...]
You will probably agree with me that we live between poles. Whether you like them or not, whether they shock you a little or too much, whether they attract you or bore you, life goes inexorably between one pole and the other. [...]
For years I thought I would die young. A few days ago I became aware of the fact that once again I have been wrong. However, as a Nike commercial from years ago says, I may have gray hair and wrinkles but [...]
