Category Living

Holy Cow…What a Day

Today was filled with stress, sadness, and fear…but, most of all excitement.  As I write this, I’m sitting at Sea-Tac airport waiting to board my flight to Houston and on to Belize.  This will be my first destination in the coming nine weeks. The stress was about ensuring that I got everything done and didn’t […]

I Almost Lost my Sense of Humor Today

I’m sure that my posts recently have indicated my stress level…high.  Today I got an email on the way to work and the subject said “another XXX issue”.  All I’ve been doing for the last month, as I try to prepare for my trip, is resolve existing “issues”.  I’m not having much luck wrapping up […]

New Customer Service

I’ve noticed lately that customer service agents are overly friendly.  Tonight I had to make several calls in preparation of my upcoming trip.  In nearly all cases, the customer service agents attempted to engage me in idle chit-chat.  When did that become a customer service “standard operating procedure”?  Tonight isn’t the first time I’ve noticed, […]

No Words

I keep a list of ideas I want to write about.  I have some great ideas on that list right now.  I’m even excited to write about them.  The problem is, I can’t come up with the words to express myself. I have a huge advantage to my “loss of words” problem for my travel, […]

Dreaming Big

Have you ever had a dream so big you were afraid to even think about it? Fearful that if you thought about it too much you’d be disappointed since it seems so impossible? I’ve had one of those kinds of dreams for a long time. As I write this post I’m worried that I might […]