Inspired and Inspirational
A while ago, I was inspired by a friend facing down his fortieth year who chose to do a Year of Yes. I followed, eventually, with my own year. Combined Continue Reading →
Category Archives: yearofyes
Slowgress
I realized today that my YearOfYes hit the one year mark last month and I need to stop looking for things to do. The start of this year has been Continue Reading →
Comfort Zone: Exit, this way
While I have greatly expanded my comfort zone in recent years, there are still a lot of things that exist well outside that zone. Traveling to another province to take Continue Reading →
Life is Short
In the grand scheme of things, we get only a limited number of years to live out on this planet. My biggest take-away from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos all those years Continue Reading →
Progress with Yes
It took me a while but in March of this year I officially kicked off my Year of Yes. Since then I have said yes to things that normally I’d Continue Reading →
Whoop Whoop!
A lot of my friends have been boggled by my recent obsession over Insane Clown Posse. I’ve weathered everything from raised eyebrows to concerned brow furrows to derisive laughter. Friends Continue Reading →
Where did June go?
I swear it was just May last week and yet my birthday is around the corner. Yesterday some asshat posted a “six months to Christmas!” cartoon. A year ago I Continue Reading →
Back to Class
When I woke up Thursday morning, the idea of going back to school was not on my mind. In fact, it hasn’t been on my mind for, well, decades. And Continue Reading →
Milestones
In the past few weeks I have passed a few more milestones. I’ve been in the apartment a little over a year now. We sold the house (that was an Continue Reading →
Ink & Me
On Friday, I overheard an endearing little conversation between a mother and her young daughter. A glance showed the girl to be about 4 I’d guess; her mother in her Continue Reading →