Reading and Holding On

Tweet In celebration of having a home to call my own once again, I subscribed to a handful of magazines. I was sad to see half of my regular magazines are no longer published, since my subscriptions ran out in 2011. ReadyMade and Budget Travel – You will be missed. I highly recommend subscribing to [...]

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Putting Down Roots

Tweet I very much value stability. Stability in my day-to-day, my relationships, my finances, my work. After my half-year of travel, regaining that stability has been my top focus. I moved to New York. I found some work. Now almost a full year after I left Atlanta, in search of what else the world was [...]

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I Might Be Being Naive

Tweet 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 [...]

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I’m Moving from Atlanta to New York

Tweet 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 [...]

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People No Smarter Than You

Tweet 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 [...]

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You Have to be Brave with Your Life

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

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Thanks For Everything Steve

Tweet “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

Tweet 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 [...]

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