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Richard Cummings

Richard Cummings is a writer, traveler, and web content developer.

Get your copy of his latest book entitled Obvious Conclusions, stories of a Midwestern emigrant influenced and corrupted by many years living in San Francisco and abroad. It just received its first outstanding review "...reminiscent of David Sedaris or Augusten Burroughs" on Amazon UK.

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YouTube TV Review:Is it worth it?Better than cable? - September 29, 2024
The Google Pixel Fold: Why It’s the Star of Google I/O 2023 - May 9, 2023
Book Review:Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - March 6, 2022

Spoken Spanish: Essays, Viajar de forma diferente (Paulo Coelho)

This page contains a reading in Spanish from Paulo Coelho’s book: Como El Rio Que Fluye: Pensamientos Y Reflexiones 1998-2005. This reading will not only provide you with the tools to learn and pronounce new vocabulary in Spanish, it will also expose you to the timeless ideas of Paulo Coelho.

Below, you will find an .mp3 version of the reading which you can play on your computer right now or download to your computer for playing locally or transferring to your phone or tablet. The text has also been provided so that you can follow along during the reading.

Looking Up

I walked through the city the other day on streets I have walked thousands of times. I have never stepped in a pothole or unintentionally bumped into anybody. But, I realized, I had seen so little because I had failed to look up.

Look up.

It’s something that you infrequently do; nobody does.

We all have to look straight ahead. This is a given. Imagine if you did not look straight ahead when you were performing life’s most basic tasks…like driving. TV, something all of us do all the time, would certainly be less enjoyable if we did not look straight ahead-it would be like radio!

Remember the days when radio ruled? You probably do not because you were not alive. Those people who would remember the radio days are not reading this because they are not currently on the Internet…they are listening to the radio.

Soursop (aka Guanábana): An Exotic, Healthy Cancer Killing Fruit?

Soursop, known in South America as Guanábana, is an exotic fruit with many health benefits, including the ability to fight cancer. So why haven’t you heard of it?

For those that have read my site in the past, you know that I have lived in Uruguay and currently spend half of the year living in Medellin, Colombia, which is where I am right now. And, coincidentally, where is A LOT of this wonderful fruit called Guanábana here in Spanish and Soursop in English.

My First Exposure to Soursop/Guanábana

Top Ten Fraudulent Self-Help Gurus: #1, M. Scott Peck

M. Scott Peck leads my list of the top fraudulet self-help gurus. This may come as a surprise to many of his devotees but let’s at least discuss the possibility.

I never liked him because the first line of his famous book, The Road Less Traveled, says Life is Difficult.

My mom and her friends all read this book. My mom used to constantly remind me that yes, Richard, Life Is Difficult. This got me depressed. And my mom’s friends too. Hence, the future success of Prozac Nation.

DVD Shrink Versus Handbrake: Which Should You Use

Because we write a lot of articles about DVD’s, we also get lots of questions and one of those is: Which should I use…DVD Shrink or Handbrake to copy DVDs?

Well, the short answer is both of them.

In the article how to copy a DVD, we explained that DVD Shrink is the best software if you are going to copy from one DVD to another DVD. However, it is not all that you need.

Career Decision Time: Listen to Steve Job’s Commencement Address

Making Career Decisions…Listen to Steve Job’s Commencement Address First

When it’s time to make your career decisions near graduation time, it would behoove you to listen to Steve Job’s Commencement Address first.

Many of you college seniors will be graduating in a couple of months. Everybody is asking you, “Well, what are you going to do with your life?”

What To Do When You’re Procrastinating?

If you’re wondering what you should do when you’re procrastinating, I might just have a quick answer for you.

You see, as I write this, it is the day after St. Patrick’s day. Being part Irish, you might be able to guess why I would like to procrastinate right now after last nights’ activities.

How about you? What’s your reason for procrastinating?

I have many more things that I should be doing…marketing my SEO software, writing an article on one of many topics that I’ve jotted down, or preparing for the impending visit from a “friend” who is upset with me because she says that I was “flirty” last night.

Hillary’s Hypocrisy

Did Hillary Clinton fail in her Presidential bids because people found her hypocritical? I wrote this piece back in 2008 when she was running against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.

We all know what happened in 2008 … and then again in 2016, when we witnessed the instructive election of Donald Trump.

Some people find Hillary dislikable, others disingenuous, and still others hypocritical.

These were my thoughts back in 2008. Let me know what you think.

My Condition

The word for it currently escapes me. (I think that it will come to me within two paragraphs). But I am semi-it.

I haven’t even had two sips of coffee yet and I don’t know that the brain is turned on. Although, when I was in bed, debating whether to arise, thoughts were rapid-fire but in a mellow feel good fashion, not frenetic. That may be the perfect state. In bed, all comfy, enjoying ideas a-flowing. Perhaps I should go back.

Who Invented The Ipod

In this article, we will take a look at who invented the iPod and the origins of this device that has became a must-have for just about everyone in the 2000’s.