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Posts Tagged ‘Recreation’

Poison Oak and Fear of Mountain Lions - Why I Love Hiking

Icon Written by on May 19, 2009 – 6:15 am

I love hiking despite the fact that I have things “to work on” while I’m in the woods. Some of these things are fairly irrational, such as my fear of falling. I am also overly cautious and am not in the shape I want to be. Yet I still go out there and hike - [...]

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Writing on Vacation - Thoughts on my Location Independent Career

Icon Written by on May 17, 2009 – 9:43 pm

I know. I take the term “loction independent” to extremes. That seems a fitting way to start this musing, which was prompted by a post on Sharon’s blog, about what being “location independent” really means. I am a writer. I have clients. This means that sometimes I find myself tapping furiously at the keyboard when [...]

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Computers, Newspapers, and Barbie Dolls

Icon Written by on March 11, 2009 – 6:20 am

Reading the paper. How long has it been since I’ve had the knowledge of the world stamped black at my fingertips? These moments  are far away from me. The newspaper itself seems lost in a dimension of another time. It’s a past that I never truly experienced.
We almost always had a computer around. When I [...]

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