. 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 [...]
No one has won more lions at Cannes than David Droga, now Creative Chairman of DROGA5, his new independent project, who without any major complication achieved a new color in his collection of lions, titanium. The video shows us how those who [...]
There is a dimension that we all have to resolve, as much as the physical, intellectual and sentimental. This dimension of our being is often subordinated and even ignored, but it is clearly as important as the most important and it is [...]
Back to basics. With the YES confirmed at the polls, it is a good time to renew our personal commitments to growth and improvement. Back to basics and back to basics: moving from presence to significance, with God as the guide in [...]
After paint explosions and thousands of pellets, the first in Scotland and the second in San Francisco, Sony Bravia invades New York with plasticine bunnies. This is how they did it, hand in hand with Fallon: The end result has been a [...]
Starting next Monday, Tribu, Promotica, Fusion, Centropolis and the :CAMedia planners at Tribu will have a new schedule starting at 9:00 AM. That’s right. We will start in Tribu at the civilized and first worldly time of 9 AM. It’s simple. The [...]
