Paul L. Orshan

I was a second generation Miami, Florida native before I moved to Costa Rica in 2020 (just before the pandemic). I have shifted my priorities to focus on less work, more writing, slowing down, health and exercise, and travel. I published my memoir “Just Say Hello” in 2018, but recently reclaimed full ownership and relaunched it on Father’s Day, 2026. That date was appropriate as much of my story is about raising and losing a daughter with severe special needs and becoming a full-time single father of teenagers. It is also about growing up, marriage and divorce, being a lawyer (I ended up filing my own bankruptcy case in 2010 in the same courthouse where I practiced as a bankruptcy lawyer), addiction and recovery (I recently achieved 42 years clean in 12-step recovery), and embracing my sexuality and coming out after 50. I guess that’s a lot for one person to go through … but it made me stronger. I love life and especially mine. I am working on my second book. The working title is “Just Say Hola!” More will be revealed …