My Travels Around The World
June 2015
Pre-departure
I'm generally pretty focused on being in the moment. I'm a good planner and make time to do just that; then when I'm doing I'm [...]
April 2015
Easter for the non-religious
April 21, 2019 I originally wrote this on April 5, 2015. The "Indiana nonsense" was about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that had just passed [...]
February 2015
Employment vs. Religion vs. Freedom
It’s always entertaining to me when an employer suspends or fires an employee for something they said, and whoever disagrees with that decision comes back [...]
Maybe I’m a Confucian! (plus Gratitude for Grief)
The Confucian line is a joke. Choosing to live in the gray sort of requires that I never box myself in to someone else's ideology. [...]
January 2015
Evolving Choices
"Introduction" was my attempt to explain Living in the Gray along with the motivation for why I'm doing this now. I consider this to be [...]
Living in the Gray: Introduction
For years people have been telling me I should write a book. I’ve never been exactly clear on what they think I should write about. [...]
November 2014
Day 4 (Thursday, 11.27.14): Cozumel – Jon’s Neighborhood, Final Thoughts
It is now actually Friday morning, around 11am Central Time. I'm writing this in the American Airlines lounge at DFW. Because flights into and out [...]
Day 3 (Wednesday, 11.26.14): Chichen Itza
After a really good night's sleep for all of us, we headed down to breakfast at 7am. We are at the very beginning of "high [...]
Day 2 (Tuesday, 11.25.14): Valladolid & the X’keken Cenote
Yesterday, Tuesday, felt like a really long day because by the time we got back to our hotel I was beat, pretty much went straight [...]
Day 1: Cozumel
So technically this isn't Day 1, more like Day 1.5. And it depends on who you ask. It's Day 2 or 2.5 for Dan. We [...]
August 2014
It’s getting real
On Sunday, July 27, 2014, we met with the architect, Chris Ridgway, to review the first set of plans he drew up. These were based [...]
July 2014
The Road to Montara
On May 5, 2014, we closed on a lot in Montara, CA, where we will build a property that will serve as investment income and [...]
May 2014
Final Days: Home via NYC
We left London early Saturday morning on May 24. And I mean early: out of the flat by 5:30am. We took a bus then the [...]
Day 16: London, Part 4: Wimbledon; Kensington Palace
The last couple of mornings I used my morning time over coffee before Dan gets up to finish the blog. And that was true this [...]
Day 15: London, Part 3: Classic London 2.0
I was telling Dan this morning that this past Tuesday might be my favorite day of the trip: classic London sites like Westminster Abbey, Parliament/Big [...]
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