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…
Author: renaissancerebecca
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…
The OK Clean Water Project
I have written a few times about my bike ride across Iowa in July, 2004. However, there’s a little more to that story I wanted to share. When people heard I was doing the trip, the first question was usually, “Is it a fundraiser?” As if saying, “Because why else would anyone choose to ride…
Signs
A few weeks ago, I wrote about buying some of the first supplies for my Camino trip. I still have not picked dates or solidified anything, but have had a few signs that my timing is perfect. In yesterday’s mail I received the quarterly newsletter from the Congregation of Notre Dame. My first experience with…
A Different Perspective
“I feel like those anemones in that vase over there,” said my piano teacher as she sat in her living room, her rolling walker off to the side of her chair. I looked at the purple, red, and white flowers in the vase behind me. “It’s like they’re imprisoned in that vase,” she went on….
On Waiting
I’m not very good at waiting. I’m an action kind of person. If I walk into a store and the lines are super long, I’ll walk out and come by some other time. I’m also not good at waiting to make decisions. When I need to decide on something, I want to weigh all the…
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