. 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 would not like to compete with Tribu. It is an agency that is too strong, dynamic, cheerful, full of energy, ideas and achievements. That must be why so many agencies have given up. Charita! It would be much more interesting with [...]
Invitation to the next event: Sunday, February 6th. Intercontinental Hotel, 4:00 PM. Some of you may have heard or read some of what we have published about the Openhouse Project. In a nutshell, it is an initiative that focuses on creating a [...]
Costa Rican Gineth Soto will reach the summit of Everest next May. Her second attempt will be the good one, and after an intense preparation, she will be the first person from our country to reach the roof of the world. We [...]
For those things in life, I have visited “the city of sin” more than I would have proposed. I ran a marathon there a few years ago, I’ve spent a couple of yearends there, and on last week’s unexpected visit, we went [...]
In Forum2 there is a sensational tribe of geeks, full of life, energy, youth, talent and commitment. It is a collection of professionals so advanced and on the cutting edge of technology, that it is as exciting to watch them as when [...]
I have no idea who Marciano Durán is, except that he is a runner, he writes and shares with his video a reality that all of us crazy runners live. Until Uruguay, thanks for your message that I now copy and paste [...]
