I haven’t been writing in the blog lately. December just didn’t afford me the time (or the ability to concentrate long enough to bang out 400 – 500 of coherent words). And for the last of December and first of January I was bringing in the new year in Medellin, Colombia. For most of the […]
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It has to be green. I also like red and blue. But if I have to pick a favorite, that would certainly be green. Why green? Well for one thing, it is the color of Costa Rica. I have never encountered a place so verdantly and vibrantly green. It is mesmerizing. You can stare at […]
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 […]
Just across from the stop light of Paseo Colón, and bordering the neighborhoods of Sabana, Pavas, and Rohrmoser is La Sabana Park. It is kinda like the “Central Park” of San José, a large rectangular area measuring 720,000 square meters (.72 square kilometers). It was officially declared a metropolitan park in 1977 during the Daniel […]
There’s just something about a mountain. I grew up a flat-lander, on the coasts of North and South Carolina. However, I have always been drawn mysteriously, like some cosmic magnetic pull, to the mountains. Maybe that is the chief reason I love Costa Rica so much. I have often wondered what exactly is it that keeps me […]
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 […]
A dash for the Shelter I read an article in last Sunday’s edition of Proa (a special section that appears each Sunday in La Nación, Costa Rica’s most reputable and reliable newspaper) about an old hotel located in one of Costa Rica’s most dangerous downtown locations, what we call Zona Roja, that has been converted […]
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