2025 has been a year of contrasts—intense, emotional, transformative. It began with a heartfelt farewell and ends with my soul wide open after the magical, peaceful family moments we usually share in Escondida. In between, there was laughter under a sky full of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Mauricio; a spiritual retreat in […]
When I review the one thousand three hundred and so many entries I have posted on this blog for several years, I realize that I have not written more than I have left any opinion here. Deliberately, without plan and without malice [...]
In 3 weeks from today I will run a marathon again, although this one has two particular characteristics: it will be the last one and the setting is New York, in the company of about 40,000 others who, like me, have been [...]
While the award ceremony had not yet begun, everything was going great for Tribu. It started and then it all went downhill, with a mention we won while Publimark was on the screen, and so on until the end, all wrong! 😉 [...]
At the time when we won our first Pregonero Bronce, around 1991, some 20 years ago, as an agency we took home an invaluable statuette.When we won our first Pregonero de Bronce, around 1991, some 20 years ago, as an agency we [...]
El Pregonero de Bronce is the creative contest with the longest trajectory in Costa Rica. It is the classic of national creativity with 29 editions full of excitement and competition, as well as a thousand stories, anecdotes, triumphs and defeats. In the [...]
For decades I have lived in an environment of creativity, innovation and idea generation. Chilling daily challenge, if I can put it in three words. However, nothing is more exciting than finding a new idea, a new way of looking at the [...]
When I was offered the cover of the first issue of Ego, several years ago, I had no hesitation in refusing the kind offer. The name of the magazine and my unfamiliarity with its new format led me to pass up the [...]
If praying is talking to God, meditating is simply listening to Him. If you want to do it, the Frenchman Erik Satie composed a master key to do it: his Gymnopédies of 1987. To listen to God. Openhouse.
Two years ago at Tribu we edited a magazine. It was called Alma and it was made by all of us at the agency, with the particularly valuable support of Aurelia Dobles, how we enjoyed it! In those days we placed it [...]
Let’s see, you who are so educated or so cultured, what does calamitad mean? Disimolar? Cataputa? Cerdeza or Cuarzo? What does culapso or bacilar refer to? At a gathering of friends and family in Mexico City last night, we enjoyed to tears [...]
A few days ago I was asked several questions about the future of advertising. I suppose that after more than 30 years in it, the journalist had a reasonably good basis for assuming that I would respond with arguments and insight from [...]
When it comes to musical talent, Costa Rica is an exciting scene of revelations. Its geography of just a few square kilometers, just a little over 51,000 square kilometers of land, bears no relation whatsoever to the quality and quantity of music [...]
