Under Contract! Two beautiful words. One beautiful house. Under contract. I hope the new owners enjoy this home as much as we have. But now it is time to move to our new life. We are back on plan. Final quarter closing next week, then two weeks vacation to get ready for the move, then…
Category: Freedom; the escape
Freedom: How we sold our house, gave away our possessions, quit job and moved to the beach in Michigan
T -35 Days: Is it weird?
Is it weird? Is it weird that I think I can make a career change this late? Is it weird that I think I can write a novel in a few months when I wasn’t an English major, and haven’t written in decades? Is it weird that my characters have bounced around in my head…
T -36 Days: Reinventing yourself
Reinventing myself, becoming a writer So how long will this take? According to James Altucher: Five years. Year One: you’re flailing and reading everything and just starting to DO. Year Two: you know who you need to talk to and network with. You’re Doing every day. You finally know what the monopoly board looks like…
T -38 Days: Risk free life
If you are a woman… then this is a great read… https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/24/whats-the-point-of-a-risk-free-life-deborah-levy-on-starting-a-new-life-at-50 And if you are not… well, I still found it fascinating and valuable. So much so, I went to find the book it is excerpted from… which has yet to be published. I was initially attracted by the article title, ‘What’s the point…
T -44 Days: In the flow
In the flow Watching my Purdue Boilermakers claw their way into the Sweet 16 in the NCAA basketball tournament today, I thought of their seniors, getting to play at least one more game, hopefully more. The pull to keep playing after this March will be fierce… even if it is in some European league far…
T -52 Days: Slackers
Slackers “Chang bowed his thanks for the information. He took a keen interest in languages and liked to weigh a new word philosophically. “It is significant,” he said after a pause, “that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much…
T -53 Days: Shangri la
Snowboarding to Tibet…. What a dream I had last night. I was snowboarding down our street where we used to live in Beaverton Oregon. An extremely steep hill, that morphed into snowboarding down Mt Hood, then back to residential areas, magically going down and up streets, mountains, hills. It was a dream, so I went…
T -70 Days: Stop screwing around
Honest question. Do you love what you do? If the answer isn’t a resounding, knee-jerk, “Yes! I live for this shit,” then I encourage you to seriously consider doing something about it. That may sound extreme, but seriously, in 100 years you and everyone you know are going to be dead and your great-grandkids aren’t…
T -73 Days: Quitting your day job
For Christmas my wife gave me a Nintendo Switch and Zelda… a fascinating, deep game for the system. It will be a nice diversion on rainy or snowy days in Michigan, but for now I have barely scratched the surface of this game world. While searching for a good overview video for pointers, I came…
T -74 Days: The pawn
It matters little to the pawn….. … on which square he rests…… …………………………..when taken Gone is gone. Dead is dead. Does the pawn scream when removed from the chessboard? Would the players notice? The pawn, existing, waiting, doing as ordered, propelled forward by the invisible hand of the player, until… the inevitable. “But I am…