365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica
Archive for September, 2010
A Learning Vacation
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 [...]
A Plague on America?
Obama is treading water and bleeding at open sea and the blood-thirsty sharks are circling, waiting for the right opportunity to dart in for the kill. This whole scenario has played out before. In case you forgot, hearken back to 1994. Clinton was president, the country suffering from severe (though not equally as severe) economic woes [...]
Who is the Walrus?
It dawned on me this morning, while flipping channels from a “network” news show to the indomitable Fox News, that “we” are in some deep doodoo. The network news show was featuring a story of how some 20,000 walruses are bunched together on a beach on the northwest coast of Alaska. Why are they there? [...]
Never too Late to Make a Difference
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 [...]
Low Impact Life
Dave Cantebury and Cody Lundin There is a survival show I watch from time to time that pits two survivalists, with acutely differering approaches to the subject, against various forces of natue. One of these guys is Cody Lundin, a self-described “minimalist” who has spent the last 20 years of his life barefoot. The other is [...]
Got a Passion to Write?
Calling all authors…. I started this blog with the idea of doing something a bit different. I spent over two years posting to my blog, 365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica. Many of the posts expressed my feelings about living in Costa Rica. Many also expressed my feelings about life in general. But most, if not [...]
1000 Homeless – 100 Beds
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 [...]
Social Entrepreneurship with Toms Shoes
I am intrigued by the concept of “social entrepreneurship.” A quick search of Wikipedia reveals the following definition….”the main aim of social entrepreneurship is to further social and environmental goals.” The Wikipedia page goes on to say, “whilst social entrepreneurs are most commonly associated with the voluntary and not-for-profit sectors, this need not necessarily be [...]
A Day that Went from Bad to Worse
I was in Hawaii on September 11, 2001. The time there is 6 hours behind that of the east coast of the U.S. So I groggily answer a call around 4:00 am from an employee of Live Oak Capital (my former company) that informed me that the U.S was under terrorist attack. “Huh,” was my foggy [...]
Cosmosis
Supernova Have you ever spent time pondering why things exist? Why we exist? I was watching a show last night and I found out. We exist because some star exploded like a gazillion years ago and the dust left over formed our planet and us along with it. That the fusion inside that star is [...]
