Seeing Your Shadow Doesn’t Have to Mean More of the Same
It looks like Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow. We’re in for six more weeks of winter. Sigh. More of the same. In the movie starring Bill Murray, weatherman Phil Conners is a self-centered […]
Finding Your Creative Edge
When I was an art major in college, a sculpture by Robert Maki was installed outside the fine arts building. It was a modernist metal work that not everyone at Wake Forest cozied up […]
White Rose Love
My time at Wake Forest was transformational. In four short years, I learned how to balance a checkbook, footnote a term paper and get out of bed for a 10:00 […]
Predicting the Future
I wrote my first memoir in 5th grade. Memorably titled “All About Myself,” it was bound in a manila folder decorated in the popular flower power motif of the times. It’s full […]
The Invisible Monument
Maria Cienfuegos travels the Cuban countryside taking photographs of long-forgotten monuments. She has spent her photography career investigating the overlooked tales of her island’s history. She’s interested in finding the untold […]
When Facebook Friends Become the Real Thing
I have a lot of “friends” on Facebook that I don’t really know. They may be friends-of-friends, or people I share interests with, but I’ve never met them in the […]
Cat on the Hat Re-Cap
This is my cat, he’s here on a hat. It’s time to explain just what’s up with that. I went to DC to see a Nat’s Game. It was Hat […]
Travel with Purpose: WomenTrek to Peru
Travel with Purpose “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than […]
So, A Guy Goes Into a Bar…
In a few weeks, I start a six-week course in stand up comedy. I’ve been thinking about it since watching Dusty Trice, my friend and co-worker at the Democratic National […]
When The End is Only the Beginning
I did it. I typed The End after I wrote the final sentence of my book a few weeks before I left Costa Rica. I think writer protocol says you are supposed […]
Who Let the Dogs Out?
[spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] All of Playa Guiones came out today for the annual Dog Show to benefit the Nosara Animal Care Spay/Neuter Clinic. Held on a local […]
Knowing the Questions but Not All the Answers
I moved to Costa Rica to write the book that’s been roiling around in my head for nearly 15 years. I first thought of it in 1999 when, at the […]
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