Five years ago this week I signed my life away and bought my condo. As a single person, that was a scary step, but one I wanted to take. That step was a long time coming. With the housing bubble, the costs of home ownership were prohibitively high for years. But since I really wanted… Continue reading House-aversary
Category: Self Imposed Limitations
Educational Leanings
When I first went to college, I was sure that I was going to be a high school history teacher while I worked towards my PhD. That was my plan, and especially at that age, once I had a vision, the blinders went on: It became set in stone. During the summer between my junior… Continue reading Educational Leanings
No Regrets
For seven years I worked at a company that was very good to me. They kept me on when financially they should have laid me off. They encouraged (and paid for) me to learn new skills. They highly valued my abilities and told me so frequently. Even when I spent 1 ½ years thinking that every day was… Continue reading No Regrets
Serendipity
Since it worked so well for me last year, I decided to make March my write-a-blog-post-a-day month. I decided this on February 28, and I was all raring to go, so I changed things up a bit: Between the end of February and the end of March, I was going to write thirty-one posts ...… Continue reading Serendipity
Spaghetti Around the World
For many people, myself included, we go on vacation to get away from it all, or at least to trade in our "all" for someone else's. To me, the process never seems quite complete, and I was able to figure out why: I keep bringing myself along. When I'm in new exciting places, I still… Continue reading Spaghetti Around the World
Friendly Perspectives
Over the years I have honed my selective listening and memory skills. To be more kind to myself in this description, I have fine tuned my information filters throughout my lifetime. In my seemingly never ending quest to figure out, "Now What?", I have turned to career books to help point me in the right… Continue reading Friendly Perspectives
First Impressions
Normally once or twice a week I stop and collect a super-sized cup of my favorite elixir. For a while, each time I went in to feed my addiction buy my soda, there was this very small man in holey clothes that would always try to strike up a conversation with me. Unfortunately for both of… Continue reading First Impressions
Joys of English
At the beginning of the year, I took the plunge and am back in school. Need I say that I'm loving it? I'm in school, I'm getting graded, AND I am learning really cool stuff ... grammar! Grammar Lab is the first class in a copyediting certificate program. It is awesome! Isn't it odd how… Continue reading Joys of English
Let’s Eat
I have several friends who have made the transition to becoming vegan. Thank you Pako Mera for use of this awesome Vegan PETA Campaign picture. While I know it is not for me, so long as they have done the research and know how to do it safely (selfishly I want them to still be… Continue reading Let’s Eat
Intersecting Circles
This past Sunday was the first performance of this year's opera season. When I ordered the tickets, the dates hadn't been released yet, and I was all excited to see a new-to-me comedic opera, The Daughter of the Regiment. It wasn't until about three weeks ahead of time that I realized the performance was on Superbowl… Continue reading Intersecting Circles
Grown Up, Now What? 