One day or day one. You decide. – Paolo Coelho
Knocking off a few projects this weekend. Have some big projects still in front of me. This quote hits the mark on a few levels. At the root it’s message of beginning instead of waiting for the right time is dead on.
Onward.
I was walking into a store to pick up a gift card (‘it’s the season for gift cards), enjoying the warming sunshine and relative tranquility offered on a quiet morning in a mall parking lot the week before Christmas in America, when my moment of bliss was turned upside down by a car alarm beeping…
Contemplating the snoring of the person in the room next to mine, I appreciate the consistently good hotels I usually stay in. Not expensive, mind you, but clean, friendly and generally built with thicker walls and floors. This one is old school independent, built economically – I’m guessing – in the 1980’s. The comforter I…
“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” – Edward Gibbon Some days everything clicks, and some days it pours stress over you like an ice bucket challenge run amuck. In general we try to steer our lives in the right direction, even when we drift off course now and…
While national holidays are commonly observed by an entire country, state holidays obviously differ from place to place. Some places, like Boston, celebrate their own holiday too, as Boston does with Evacuation Day every March 17th. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Maine, once part of Massachusetts, celebrate Patriots Day. If you aren’t…
“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Chris McCandless I’m a traveller…
As a road warrier, I’m used to long drives. Honestly, I don’t even blink when I drive 6-7 hours anymore. The one exception to that is the drive back from New Jersey to New Hampshire. The timing of the drive is critical, and so is the weather. This afternoon neither worked in my favor. From…