Federer is Betterer!

If there was any doubt if he was the greatest player to ever play the game of tennis, it has been removed and replaced with an exclamation mark! 

Roger Federer is and will be the greatest man to play the game of tennis. 

It took him a little over 4 hours and a 16-14 fifth set to claim his greatness, breaking Pete Sampras record by winning his 15th Grand Slam. 

What a year for this man. Completing the "Grand Slam" after winning the French Open, breaking Sampras' Grand Slam record today, getting married and expecting a child later this year.  

This year will be a hard one even for the great one to match, but another win at the US Open could put a ":-)" next to that exclamation mark. 

Statue of Liberty

Happy 4th of July to all Americans. The Nation turns 233 years old today. In celebration of the it's birthday, the icon which has stood for freedom and liberty to many, will once again open its gates once again...that is to tourist of course.

Today, 9 years after the mortifying events of 9/11, the Statue of Liberty will once again open its doors to let people have a birds eye view from it's crown. 

I remember years ago, right after 9/11 happened, my family took a quick day trip to NYC. It really is a stunning view when you see the Statue of Liberty for the first time. You see it so many time in history books, movies, and television that you're almost star-struck when you see. We never made it to the actually island, but we did make it to a fabulous pizza place. Hey that's American enough right...wait...doesn't pizza come from Italy? Oh well, same thing...right? 

Long live America and all those who have brought their rich culture here! 

Here are some facts about Miss Liberty:

-She weights 225 ton

-She is 111 feet tall

-The sandals she wears are 25 feet long

-It took 15 years to build it

-And in true American fashion, Frenchman Gustave Eiffel did the iron work for the statue. 

Bilingual Review Accepted

Last Wednesday I had the GREAT news of finding out that The Bilingual Review Press is going to publish not one, but TWO of my poems in their forthcoming journal. This is not only amazing news for me as this is the first time that my poetry will be officially published in a journal, but more than anything, this is a very well established and recognized journal among Latino writers.

I really didn't think I had a chance and almost just sent my submission as a pity request. Long an Behold Dreams can come true!! 

The two poems that were accepted are:

"Latino Enough To Be Your Man" and "My Bruised Tomato" 

I'll make sure to post the date the journal comes out. Here is their website, check it!

http://www.asu.edu/brp/bilin/bilin.html

The Alchemist Workshop

This is going to be a great month on Paulo Coelho's blog. I have been following his blog everyday now for the last year and it is superb. Every week he has a question for fan's to answer, for instance, this week he wants to know about angels. Have you met an angel, seen one or are one? He also has quotes from his manual "The Warrior of the Light" (which I always keep in my car and read one page before driving to work). There is also a section in which his fan's can ask him a question directly. 

 

Every so often he conducts workshops about one of his book. This month the workshop is on his famous book The Alchemist. I have read the book a total of 7 time now and I make sure I read it before I know a big moment in my life is about to occur. The last I read it was right before I got married this past December. 

In the workshop, fans are able to put comments or questions and Paulo will most likely answers them within 24 hours. I have already put a few comments in and he has responded! What a great way to get in touch with his fans! Paulo Coelho responded to my questions! 

I plan to post at least one comment every 2 days either for Paulo or a reply to another fan. Make sure you check out it: http://paulocoelhoblog.com

Fine Lines Competition

Tonight I've been working hard on some entries for the Fine Lines competition (www.finelines.org). The first prize is $100 dollars and I think I have a good chance of winning it. Well I'm sure everyone else is thinking the same thing, but none the less I plan to win it. :-) 

The competition is unique because you have to write a fictional piece in 55 words or less. That might not sound very hard, but to try to write a story that has a character, plot and resolution in 55 words or less is pretty damn tricky. I have finished three of them tonight, each of them having exactly 55 words. Wahoooo! 

The three I'm entering are a chopped-up, finely-tuned version of some of the passage I wrote for The Traveler, which by the way, my little brother has been working really hard to finish the art work and they look absolutely  awesome! He's got so much talent and vision!

The competition deadline is Oct 31st so there is plenty of time to get that pencil to the pad and enter those stories! 

All Blogged up!

Well here it is...the make-over my blog over went this morning! I needed to a fresh page to look at, not that the old page wasn't nice, but sometimes it is nice to get a little change. 

So with big changes comes big plans and that is exactly what I plan to do. I'm going to shy away from posting just my work on this site and start putting more thoughts and more jibber-jabber. Meaning that I might put random things on here, some of it literature, some news, some option and some of it just might be me ranting about what has happened recently. 

I know that I really don't have a fan base, but I plan to make that change someday. How will I do this? By opening up the blog for more discussion with questions and talked about topics. I also plan to post my opinion on other peoples blog, with the purpose that they will visit my blog. So hopefully I'll see more followers on my blog. Yay! Listen to me! How selfish! HA!

I am convinced that the Internet is a great tool to get you work seen and recognized, plus it's FREE! (at least for now)

This newer, fresher version of this blog will also push me to keep writing everyday or at least search for things to write about. This is a great thing, because like all writer's I also get writer's block for days and all I'll do is stare at my white wall until I can make an image of something absurd. That's not fun either.

Club n blog, will remain the blog I use for my Spanish students, but I also plan to put post on what is happening around El Mundo Latino. At times the two will mix and join on the same topic, but for the most part Club n will take part on the Latino/Hispanic/Spanish themes.  

Thanks for visiting...let's get blogging!!!

Make-over

To all my thousands of fans, stay posted for the make-over my blog will be getting coming this July! YIKES!!