This blog posting will be unlike any of my other postings. For one thing, I’m not including any images. I am including a video from the Wall Street Journal and one from a technical guru that I trust. I will encourage you to seek further information for yourself. I’m relating my...

The Second Coming William Butler Yeats, 1919 Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The...

Recently, I took my camper van - Honu - on an extended road trip (about 5000 miles). I have traveled quite a bit internationally but traveling like a sea turtle with my home on my back and seeing much of my own country for the first time is the BEST traveling experience I’ve ever had. I...

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take...

Yesterday, I said goodbye to my best friend for 14 years. I am bereft. In my head, I know it was the right decision. I did not want him to have a minute of suffering or pain or fear. I wanted his life to be one of comfort and joyous moments. But the one thing I could not protect him from was...

  I’ve always said that the best stories are found between the pages of a passport. In the last few months, I’ve been trying to fill my passport story book with as many pages as possible. I was home for only a month, after spending three glorious months on the coast and slow...

“I was born under a wandrin’ star. Wheels are made for rollin’, mules are made to pack. I’ve never seen a sight that didn’t look better looking back.”   Lee Marvin, in Paint Your Wagon. The time I spent each year at my coastal refuge has become an...

  I’ve always been fearful of the coma that happens with sleep, losing consciousness, losing track of time. That I could be oblivious to things happening around me makes me anxious and vulnerable. I seldom sleep restfully. My sleep is punctuated with many awakenings and sometimes...

So, I have been at my beach winter hideaway for a month now. I always bring a list with me of all the things I hope to accomplish. For about a week, I experience some guilt and anxiety over not meeting my rigid productivity timeline. I call this time period my airlock - the transition between my...

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're...