. 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 [...]
I do not know its origins and I do not understand in depth its full dimension, however, I am also a victim of the consequences of living in a country so pure life. In the most positive aspect of its content, to [...]
As a university student I was consumed in the politics of those years. In General Studies I was a soldier in the legions of young rebels who made Cotico president of the FEUCR in 1975. Years later, it was I who tried [...]
From vision to reality to illusion to realization, :CAMedia went from an idea to a consolidated success in a very short time. It is clear: the market was waiting for it and Rolando Rodriguez made it a reality together with an extraordinary [...]
Uncontrolled visual pollution: that is what billboards, signs in general and, especially, the recently arrived billboards bring. It is enough to open our eyes to the visual contamination that they bring everywhere, to realize the indiscriminate way in which they invade our [...]
This blog is one more idea, which may be silly or suddenly is a good idea. It is a new resource for those of us who are new immigrants to the resources of technology, which in my case, is about 18 years [...]