So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself and I
Didn't know I was lost

There needs to be a word for being homesick for the place you've never lived, but fell in love with when you went there. I experience this feeling often. I think the closest term is wanderlust, but I think that's more about ( Read more... )

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside I've got the month of MayA lot can happen in a year ( Read more... )

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside
I've got the month of May

It's almost impossible to believe that I only made it back from my Vegas and Edmonton trips about ten days ago. Talk about packing it in.

I've been scrambling to get everything ready for my epic birthday party this year - a Carnival. With over a dozen games, a ( Read more... )

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us

I'm starting this post in the Vegas airport, watching the sun rising over the mountains, and continuing it with my laptop sticking out into the aisle of my flight to Minneapolis on my way home. Thanks to Delta being lax, nobody is hassling me about this. Not a bad end to a very ( Read more... )

Summer has come and past

The innocent can never last

Wake me up when September ends

Typically this song has been a good indicator of busy season coming to a close. This year it's not even getting started. It's looking like October is going to be my busiest month of the year - which is rather strange, considering July was pretty dull and it's ( Read more... )

And where is our inspiration
When all the heroes are are gone?
Hey kids, could we be the ones?

Everything I have to talk about concerning my past month or so fits fairly neatly into a full circle of ideas that I have been considering about my way of life. All my time with friends and family, going on vacation, and considering my mood, attitude, ( Read more... )

See I know you’ve got your plans
'Bout your life and how to live it
You want two different things
But it’s getting hard to pivot
A steady life but such a bore
Or take a risk for something more
What kind of life would you like to be living?
The last few days have been an interesting time of transitioning back to work from Sabbatical, and it has been easier ( Read more... )

I feel like my sabbatical has been such a long journey. Every year I try to do a Year in Review. I know the sabbatical was only six weeks, but it feels like a lot happened.

Part of the issue in communicating about the sabbatical is that the last several years have been really tough, and the sabbatical was time to think about ways to change my life, ( Read more... )

Lord I don't know which way I am going
Which way the river's gonna flow
It just seems that upstream I keep rowing
Still got such a long way to go

There are only a few hours left of this year. All I can say is good riddance. I am leaving behind one of the hardest years of my life. Not entirely unrewarding, at least, but not a year I'd want to relive ( Read more... )

I've got a feeling
That tonight's gonna be a good night

That was the song I last remember reverberating through the walls in our humble abode last night around midnight. It wasn't TOO bad. Just... recognizable. I suppose it was Friday night in NYC. We're staying in a Dominican neighborhood, in an apartment building with a lot of character, a tiny ( Read more... )