Look out Shirley Valentine, my hero, Debbie LaFleiche is downsizing her home to supersize her life. I am on a quest for a life filled with adventure, creativity, fun, freedom and water as deep as forever. Come along for the ride. Join the journey. I wrote that a month ago at the end of the inaugural […]
Changing a light bulb in my house goes something like this: My sister, who comes to Alaska regularly as a flight attendant, is overnighting with me. She comes into a room, notices a bulb is out and says, “Did you know that bulb is out?” I look up from whatever I’m doing and say, “Yeah, […]
Once I settled on the idea that I didn’t need a million dollars to stop working, the idea of not continuing to work a full-time, traditional job came to me with more and more frequency. But coming to those conclusions didn’t mean I had a clue what came next. I have never had the travel bug or […]
You know the Robert Frost poem about two roads diverging? Everyone knows that poem. Even people who don’t know poetry know that poem. The road less traveled and all that. The narrator walks a path that forks. A choice must be made. And, he chooses the one less traveled and that, he concludes, “has made all the […]
Today I turn 50. For years, if you asked how I’d be spending this birthday, the answer was simple: you’d find me in Greece. Ever since I saw the British movie Shirley Valentine (watch the trailer here) I’ve been obsessed with vacationing in Greece, obsessed with having a vacation like hers. I would swim in […]