Category: Notes

  • Planning Your First Solo Trip? Let’s Talk.

    Planning Your First Solo Trip? Let’s Talk.

    When I first started solo traveling long term, I had very little information about how it would all work. I’m pretty good a planning so I laid out what I could and then took off. If you want to look at pieces of that story, my old blog The Social Caterpillar is now in ebook…

  • When your Think cannot Brain

    You know how when you’ve got a lot going on, you tend to forget simple things, like making sure you’ve removed all the styling pins from your hair before you leave the house? Or something… less specific to what I did yesterday… Anyway, it’s like your brain can’t take one more thing. It’s actually just…

  • New Orleans and a Year’s Wardrobe in a Carry On

    New Orleans and a Year’s Wardrobe in a Carry On

      A lot going on right now. Phew Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: I’ve given up my apartment and put my stuff in storage. Okay, so it’s a little different, last time I had a house and sold my stuff. Right now, I’m in New Orleans, the Irish Channel district to be…

  • Happy 2014

    Happy 2014

    Happy 2014, my dears! In the midst of all the resolutions and regrets, I’d like to note that every day is a new opportunity. Yes, the fresh page on the brand new calendar is inspiring (or possibly intimidating), and yet, no matter how wonderfully or badly yesterday went, we’ve still got today. This goes for…

  • Presence of Body

    Presence of Body

    I was in my voice lesson and my instructor asked me to add a series of movements to the vocal practice I was working on. I could not believe how difficult this was for me. Usually when I feel a physical resistance which matches my emotional resistance, I’m jumping off of something not standing in…

  • Welcome

      Welcome, do come in. I’ve been hoping you’d stop by. Actually, I have. This move has been about a year and a half in the making, though most of it was passive, letting my brain come to terms with the shift my life had taken. I’m not off adventuring like I had been or…