No Grocery Store Required? Amazon Prime and My Local Farmers Market – Opposites Attract
Let me just start with the simple fact that I hate going to the grocery store. I always buy more than I plan to buy and the extra always seems to come from the snack and wine aisles. I hate waiting in line. There is no true express lane no matter what they say. Self-checkout [...]
Are You Listening To Your Inner Voice?
Over 20 years ago my mother and I sold nearly everything we had, piled the rest of it into the hatchback of my car and with my infant daughter in the back seat drove from the East Coast towards the West. We had the city of Bakersfield in mind. Bakersfield was my call. My mother [...]
Leaving the US and Leaving Everything Behind
It would be easy to blame Tim Ferriss and his book The Four Hour Work Week for planting the seeds of my desire to leave the US. His writings on mini retirements, where people not of traditional retirement age head off to live months or years in exciting new places before returning back home, could [...]
A Return to Peace of Mind
A couple of weeks after completing a personal goal of running an 8k race, I had a scheduled blood test. Six months earlier my doctor had noted low calcium and my usual iron deficiency. He wanted a re-check down the road before clearing me to resume yearly physicals. Since that time I had been feeling [...]
