Repost from my friend’s blog. You can find the original article on her site here. How To Have the Most Fun at GYC: Or at least, my take on it. By Josephine Elia When I first started coming to GYC, I would remember every message, every speaker, and every conviction […]
I have a hard time answering that quintessential road trip time passing question “If you had to give up one, what one sense could you live with out?” But I can answer a related question. The one sense I could not live with out is the sense of smell. Yes, […]
Be careful what you wish for. It’s an old adage often stated because you might get just that thing you wished for. I would offer as a warning an axiom of that statement: be careful what you pray for, you may get it. Some occurrences near the end of 2010 […]
I like statistics. Numbers, percentages, graphs, random factoids–they tickle my brain. So I guess I could report some statistics on my travel experiences from the last year. If had design skills, maybe I’d make an infographic. I love infographics too. I have put about 15,000 miles on my car in […]
Perhaps the way to keep others engaged in what I am writing is not to start on a tragic note. Yet, in many ways, my year was defined by highs and lows. I will talk about the highs as well, I just figured may as well rip the band aid […]
Sometimes practically applying the knowledge that you’ve learned seems hopelessly impossible. Sure, the words on the page, the pictures in the diagram, the description from the person with more experience makes sense. But when you take what you’ve been told and try to put it into practice, sometimes you just […]
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