Vision Pro First Impressions
While sales of the Vision Pro continue to sink, I really like what I saw during a demo. It has uses. Continue Reading →
Category: Writing
A Month Leaving My Phone At Home
Leaving a phone at home in favor of a smart watch and notebook is an excellent idea, but not for everyone. Continue Reading →
Ditching My Phone For A Watch And Notebook – One Week Experiment
I’m getting a little sick of my phone. Sick of my addiction to it and reliance on it. Sick enough to try this experiment for a week: Whenever I leave Continue Reading →
How To Devour 100 Books A Year
This is going to sound like a lofty goal: Devour 100 books in a year. Why devour and not simply read? Because I’ve found audiobooks are a great way to Continue Reading →
Why I’m A Slave To My Fancy Fitness Tracker And Fitness Apps
I love tech and I often think it can cure all my ills, or at least distract me with its awesomeness. As I age, though, I am more and more Continue Reading →
An Unlikely Place To Find Courage
It was an odd feeling to admire the people along the sidelines of the walk this weekend. Not the ones cheering us on, but the ones shouting us down. My Continue Reading →
Building Relationships Works Better Than Receiving Sponsorship
I’m a freelancer and hungry for money. Raise your hand if you can relate. I need money because I’m hungry for food (only partially true these days as my wife Continue Reading →
My Kingdom For A Map
I should have downloaded some maps before this trip on the Victoria Clipper began. Not that I need to. But I love maps. I love knowing where I am and Continue Reading →
Mixed Up About Time
I spent this last week teaching at the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts (MISSA) at an idealistic retreat 45 minutes from Victoria, BC. I am a good judge Continue Reading →
A Realistic Version Of The Typical Blogger At The Beach
Spurred on by the unrealistic images of smiling women on a sandy beach pecking away at their non-functioning laptops, I thought I’d take a stab at creating a more realistic Continue Reading →
The Reality Of This Frequent Flyer
I am not superstitious. Flight 569, a Boeing 737-900, sits on the end of runway 24R at LAX and I stare out the port side Plexiglas next to seat 7A. Continue Reading →
Figuring Out The Romance Of Train Travel
I just got off the train and I want to jump on another. I’m in Vancouver, Canada and it’s been one of my goals to take the train across this Continue Reading →
Create A Gratitude List
I’m taking a break from the interactive side of social media for a week. It’s nothing drastic and I’m not trying to prove anything. I just need a break from Continue Reading →
Creating Urgency To Get Things Done
NOTE: This is NOT a cure for all that ails. Nor is it a good idea most of the time. But I have found this technique to be handy when Continue Reading →
Travel Blog School.Com Donates Class Seat To Passports With Purpose
Do you love to travel and communicate? Have you often thought of starting your own travel blog or improving the one you started? Do you enjoy learning from fun, energetic Continue Reading →
A Day Trekking In Nepal
Namaste! I’ve started writing more about my time in Nepal this last April and May and one of the first places to highlight that writing is Avid Trips. The blog Continue Reading →
Introducing The (Not So) Underground Seattle Travel Writing Mafia
Some of us write for newspapers. Some write for magazines. Others pen guidebooks or ghost write. Almost all of us have a blog of some sort or write for one. Continue Reading →
The Carey Adventures Blog Direction Defined
Hay there! First off, thanks for checking out The Carey Adventures! I’ve been amazed at the growth of this blog in the last 6 months and to that end I Continue Reading →
Day 2 at the Whidbey Island Writers Conference
Should there be a ‘ in writers? As in writers’ ? I just don’t know. But I do know the conference is a wealth of information. It’s been enjoyable with Continue Reading →
Whidbey Island Writers Conference
Today was the first full day of the Whidbey Island Writers Conference here on lovely Whidbey Island. For Kim it was the second day, Thursday being a couple of dedicated Continue Reading →