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Now that I'm a trippy spiritual being instead of the annoying human doing I was before almost dying, a couple of spiritual books have found their way onto my nightstand. Years ago, while trying to Find Myself, I read them all. Desperate for answers, I read every self help, know thyself and "become a spiritual being" book I could find. For years, I read. Mostly to no avail. I always felt better while reading, but the Great Spiritual Awakening eluded me. So I gave up.
Today, after years working a spiritual program, I . . . → Read More About Book Review: On Bumping into the Divine
Wow, we got the ebook version of Hal’s book online last night. What a FEAT. The learning curve for the software alone took me days to conquer. I bought a piece of software last year for $60 or $70, can’t remember now, that promised to allow instant secure digital delivery of a digital product.
In case my mom is reading this, I’ll explain: a digital product is one that is sold online and you take possession (after you’ve paid) via download. Like an ebook. Or an iTunes song. Or downloaded software. As . . . → Read More About Phase 1 Complete!
Mostly with things to do, but I’ve been gifted with a few lovelies from the universe as well.
1. The first to do today was to search online for the article starring me in the L.A. Times. I seem to have a knack for drawing attention to myself. For free, but hoping it leads to a paying gig. To read the whole article, you have to close the seductive Halle Berry movie ad about a million times. Small price to pay, n’est-ce pas? Actually, I do not star but rather close. And they mention the broad website! . . . → Read More About My Cup Runneth Over
In my ongoing quest to meet girlfriends, I joined two Escazú book clubs. Somehow, when I turned 50, girlfriends took on new meaning. As in: life would have no meaning without good girlfriends. I never felt that way before, but it’s taken me by storm. I had great girlfriends back in Key West: long time (let’s not say "old", ok?), loyal, funny. Husbands are nice and all, but a good girlfriend is essential.
My first Costa Rica girlfriend, Dara Bortman, moved back to the states. Which was their plan all along, but I still can’t forgive her. In . . . → Read More About Carrots Fucking The Earth
Read this book. If you are younger than 50 and don’t have any inkling of things falling apart, you may not enjoy it as much as the majority of the population. But even if you are still in charge of your faculties, give it a shot. Beautiful writing. Wild story. Love, history, desire, murder, revenge, animals, a fat lady… everything. I loved it. I stayed up to midnight to finish reading it. That’s love.
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There is a grass-roots campaign to save M-Bags! Hallelujah!!! Click here for the info in a .pdf
You can sign a petition online, takes a second and these do have an effect. Even if you never plan to send any books to me, please sign the petition because maybe someday somebody will if it’s cheap enough.
In the meantime, the Ladies of the Lake in Tilaran, a town on the north west corner of Lake Arenal, have started a kid’s lending library. Not only does their library depend on the kindness of strangers sending books . . . → Read More About M-Bags and An Excuse
My favorite word. Practice it here: Bookcrossing.com. Can’t wait to start leaving the contents of my ten 40lb M-Bags of books on park benches. One book at a time, of course.
Hal and I did two things on dates, besides eat: we’d try out sofas (I have no idea why we did this… we’d be out, there’d be a furniture store and next thing you know we are sitting on all the sofas.) And browse bookstores. We couldn’t walk out of a bookstore without a stack of books. Last week in Naples, we spent $400 on discount books… That’s a lot of books. We had some catching up to do…
At our garage sale just before we ran away, people like us walked out with boxes of our books. We . . . → Read More About Sad Day For U.S. Expats Around the World
There’s a lovely, powerful saying by which I live. It goes: "The more you complain, the longer God lets you live."* Poetic, isn’t it? And productive. My complaints about not being able to get my books cheaply to Costa Rica produced many helpful hints from the old-timers here. Er, long-timers.
By far, the best all-around method is to bring your books. As many as you can. We arrived with the maximum bags and boxes (four apiece, including carry-ons), along with a couple extra bags for which we were charged. I can’t remember exactly how much, but relatively little . . . → Read More About Beautiful M-Bags!
There are three little things that could keep me from being totally, insanely in love with Costa Rica: the book situation (lack of bookstores and/or a cheap way to get books here), good reasonably priced restaurants, and MOVIES. At this moment, lack of decent movies and/or movie rentals is at the top of my Things-Not-To-Love-About-Costa-Rica list.
Sunday was a good day for a movie, so we whipped out the La Nacion (the Spanish language daily Costa Rica newspaper which we can now peruse) and the Tico Times (the English language weekly) and searched movie listings. . . . → Read More About Three Little Things
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