Dear friends of TheMarioBlog: A Happy New Year to you all, full of health, peace and much prosperity.

I have decided to escape the winter storm in New York City and have escaped to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in Spain, for a few days.

My Internet connection has not been the best here, so I will try to post the first blog of 2018 Monday, Jan. 8. Definitely, I hope to have the blog back on a full publishing schedule by Monday, Jan. 15. Thanks for your patience.

…and welcome back.

April 18-19, 2018-–Newscamp ,Augsburg,  Germany.

May 26, 2018 —Associacion Riograndense de Imprensa, Univesidad de Santa Cruz (Unisc), Brazil

June 3-6, 2018—The Seminar, San Antonio, Texas.