In October of 1999, I got an e-mail about an airfare sale. It was from a company specializing in travel for folks under 26 years of age and at the time I was 23. My desire to study abroad in college was shot down long ago, but here I saw an opportunity. I wanted to…
Month: April 2010
Post-college life
A while back (November actually), I started a series of posts on how I got here. By “here” I mean how I got to the point where I’m generally accepting of the fact that not everyone is meant to have just one job that they go to 9-5 for twenty years. How I got to…
The Open Mike
So I’ve been trying my best to do an “Artist Date” once per week. I’ve written about them in earlier posts – basically it’s a date with yourself. Yes, by yourself. I know it’s a scary concept for plenty of people, but oh how I enjoy it when I get up the nerve and do…
Variety
When talking to a parent of one of my tutoring students last week, he asked what I do for work other than tutoring. People assume I must be a high school math teacher since I’m tutoring their high school child in that very subject. I told him I teach Anatomy & Physiology at a local…
Ten Other Lives
On Saturday, there was an exercise in my Simple Abundance book that asked me to list 10 other lives I’d like to lead. As you can imagine, I didn’t have much trouble with this. I come up with new lives to lead just about every week. Sometimes more often than that. But the nice thing…
On Inspiring Words
I opened the mailbox the other day to find just three things in it – and all were for me. This is unusual as I share my mailbox with my neighbors across the hall. Not only were all three things for me, but they were all things I was happy to have received. Two were…
