I Might Be Being Naive

The past three months have been, on a whole, what I expected. A lot of sitting in front of my computer, diligently job searching, emailing, networking. Catching up with friends and contacts, networking and meeting new ones. Happy hours! (Atlanta, you really need to get with it on this one.) A little snow, a little [...]

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I’m Moving from Atlanta to New York

I’m moving to New York. This is no surprise to many of you. I joke that I have been half-living there for about five years from the sheer quantity of time I have been spending there for both work and pleasure. In 2008, I spent over 200 days camped out there! Every time I left, [...]

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People No Smarter Than You

You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. [...]

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You Have to be Brave with Your Life

You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs.

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Thanks For Everything Steve

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Steve Jobs

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Remembering 9/11 – I’m Heading Home

Of course I was so anxious to get home that I forgot that my so diligently written and stamped postcards are still in my carry-on and not mailed in Amsterdam as they should have been. Well, damn. I guess it had to happen at some point. I’m on my flight home. My last flight from [...]

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Experiencing Media – Tourist Habits

It’s my own fault for traveling to almost exclusively capital cities but my entire time in Europe has been a sport in avoiding tourists. Here inside the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, I don’t know why I find myself surprised that so many visitors spend longer reading the descriptions, listening to their audio guides and [...]

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A Roadmap to a Life that Matters

Our economy might be in pursuit of mediocrity because too many of us put what, why, and who makes us want to go into a fetal crouch, plug our ears, and bang our foreheads against our knees above, beyond, and before what, why, and who we love. – Umair Haque This article from the Harvard [...]

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