Avoid The Antigua Tax With One-Way Tickets To Guatemala Airlines should ban me from booking anything other than one-way flights. Please, airlines, ban me! I’ll do whatever illicit behavior it takes. I’ve just clocked in my 12th day in Guatemala, a full month left before my flight to NYC and then to Asia. But…
1-2-2015 Grandpa, today from the Hill of the Cross the view of the volcano and Antigua is clear. An hour ago I learned that yesterday that you had gone. Images of you at every stage I’ve known you have been streaming through my recall. Since a half century ago you were given six months to…
Her lyrics are endearingly lovely—like baby bunny rabbits, nestled near lambs, next to hamsters, wearing tiny sweaters. Somehow and AP reporter found her way onto this site, and this year these music mixes and the idea behind them was published as a feel good story all over the press wires with Sharing Music: A Personal…
Like Hemingway’s Paris, The Goodbye Blue Monday is now going to have to be something crazy that we carry within us—a light burning like the tip of a hand-rolled America Spirit. In this café in the Mission of San Francisco, I should be working on the article that is due at midnight. But upon…
When my friends Corissa and Joe invited me to spend Thanksgiving with them in Oakland with their baby and in-laws, I declared, “I shall walk from San Francisco to Oakland!” I asked Google the best way to get there, under the assumption that surely there was a bridge. Google said, “Welcome to Oakland, bitch! There’s…
So for the third time in my life, I found myself playing guitar for the police and people being arrested. When I’m in Guatemala, I drink gin. On one such night, sipping my gin at The Snug, I met the musician Corissa Bragg, who was drinking next to me. We made tentative plans to…
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Diana Stevan is a writer, actor, screenplay writer and author who has just self- published a romance-fueled adventure novel, A CRY FROM THE DEEP. Diana and I have been in touch since she did a review of my self-published 2012 book “How We Are Human” For anyone considering going the route of self-publishing a book, Diana…
If the publishing industry is dying, then the publishing industry must have been the wall between artist and consumer that is currently crumbling.There is tons of talk equating the decentralization of publishing with the death of publishing. The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Huffington Post and many other news sources have all called it the “death” of “publishing as we…
One take-away from the Buddhist Geek’s 2014 Convention in Boulder, Colorado was how contrary to mindfulness applications like Facebook can be. The merits of Facebook are plenty, but when allowed to dominate our attention, Facebook can diminish the present. While I’ve written before praising Facebook, I go overboard with it sometimes and I know you do…
