Things have changed considerably since Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill was first published. That was in 1937. The U.S. was in depression and on the eve of World War II. The decades of the 30’s and 40’s were indeed a time when a positive mental attitude was about all one could maintain. Everything else that […]
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Standing up for what’s right, at all costs, is the hallmark of true courage and conviction. Kimberly Blackwell had such courage…such conviction. Blackwell was found brutally murdered on the patio of her remote home on the Osa peninsula, bordering Corcovado National Park. She had acquired a tract of land and planted cocoa trees and started […]
Picture yourself on a white sand beach in the glaring tropical sun with the waves crashing on a crystal clear sea while you recline on your beach chair sipping a tropical rum punch. Sound nice? Well it is a perfect setting to enjoy in a place like Cancun or Cozumel, where the resorts are large, […]
What’s so great about a vacation? Most people live their lives in order to take one. It becomes really, after the kids and that ultimate vacation called retirement, the most important day-to-day motivating factor in their lives (well sex has to be up there on the list, but the vacation is usually viewed as an […]
I saw An Inconvenient Truth last night and again this morning for the first time. I guess that admission shows that I am a little late to arrive to the sustainability party. But, what the hell, I’m here. Better late than never, as they say. All the facts, graphs and photos were indeed impressive and […]
Visited the ACTUAR office today. Actuar is a Spanish verb meaning “to act.” But in this case, it is also the name of the Costa Rican Association of Rural Community Tourism. What is “rural community tourism.” Well, according to their guidebook, it is tourism that provides a chance to really immerse oneself in local culture and […]
I have had the notion from time to time of offering a traditional Costa Rica vacation package with a twist. And that twist would be allocating some portion of time to volunteering. The volunteer part would not just be about sloshing out ladles of soup in some downtown San Jose soup kitchen. No, it would […]
From the title of this post, one can quickly evaluate my level of Spanish. But then again, me intendiste, verdad? I get corrected alot, by Lily, her children, family and others. But, even so, the point usually gets across. And the point here is, I got mangos coming out my ears these days! We have […]
Lately you can find any number of web sites dedicated to helping you “reduce your carbon footprint.” There are even “carbon footprint calculators” that measure exactly how much carbon you are spilling into the atmosphere and contributing to our planet’s overheating. This is all well and good, but in my opinion all this focus on […]
It seems that Western society is designed along the lines of the following conspiracy….the solvers of problems create the problems to be solved. Take Western medicine and medical care, for instance. It just seems that we have set up a society so full of stress and poison that it creates a constant and never-ending stream […]
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