Essay

Talk About Walkabout

Saint George's Castle Lisbon

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.

And Now for Something…

Narrow Lisbon path

I’m on walkabout.

I realize that for most people that word may be a bit nebulous—probably equivalent, …

Essay: Dont Be Afraid

Post Office bench

For anyone who’s lived in most any large city or has done a lot of travel, you come to develop a certain “sixth sense” about people trying to scam you or otherwise part you from your money. You are not necessarily afraid of these people, but you learn to be wary.

The magic solution to their …

Life Strategy and the …

Neuschwanstein Castle

When you wake up in the morning, do you have some sort of plan to guide you through the day? Not a rigid schedule, but a set of heuristics to help your decision making about what to do and what not to do? What about your life—do you have a life strategy?

Most of you probably have your decisions …