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Mobile Lifestyle
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09.16.07You Should Quit Your Job on MondayI'm in semi-retirement right now and I'm twenty-six. Back in my college town, eating Carolina Mud Pies (double-fudge pie w/fudge on top, á la mode), getting hit on by pizza delivery men and, to anyone but me, perhaps, living the good life. If this is retirement, I'm planning to come out of it. I am living the good life, but have my eyes open, looking out for the next thing, all the time. And that's because I'm conditioned to be busy, rushing around buying things and selling them, working and working and...just like you. Filling up my ...
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09.06.07What I Learned in NYCLast week I was sitting at Starbucks in the Bronx reading the Tao Te Ching. The new translation by Stephen Mitchell, in case your interested. As I watched Dominicans and Mexicans walk by, arms laden with Target bags and children, I wondered at how weirdly connected I felt to everyone. New York City, if you resist it, grabs you and pulls you along anyway. It's impossible to spend thirty minutes in the city without watching people and getting swept into the noise, movement and color of the place. New York City shattered my notions of ...
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06.19.07HomeLess but HopeFullWhat now? I wish I could say that I've figured out what the next move is, that I know which direction to go. It's been two weeks since the fire and I'm no longer laying awake wondering what will happen to me as I sleep. I figure if it's going to happen, it just will. The lethargy is peeling away at its own pace as half-formed ideas ripen and begin to take root. At the moment I'm sleeping in the basement of a friend's house. The same basement where I dumped what was left of my possessions ...
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06.14.07A Macbook, Some Fire & F(l)ame[ Watch Gwen perform "Fame" a week before her house burns down and she becomes a famous journalist. Keep an eye out for a cameo by the camera crew.] Here's a story worth telling. Stan, from wanderingstan.com posted a blog about the MacBook that didn't survive the fire. He then submitted the story to TUAW, The Unofficial Apple Weblog. The story caught on like a flame. All this happened as I slept, in Michigan. I had no idea anyone had submitted it. Let alone dugg it. It's been dugg nearly 2,000 times. The stories been read more ...
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06.12.07Get Mobile. Here’s How.Most of you know I'm now living a mobile lifestyle. (I prefer this terminology to "vagrant" or Capshaw's more euphemistic "nomad.") The plan is emerging, but I know for sure that I don't want to pay another deposit (yesterday's sticker shocker? $975 for a one-room in downtown Boulder) for a house that hasn't gotten a deep clean since the '40s, a landlord that neglects to check her fire extinguishers and looks like it might go up in flames any minute. Yesterday, a tenant that's moving out showed me the fireplace and said, "it really works!" ...
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06.02.07UpdateHi all, I had a piece here that was a work-in-progress, an attempt at explaining what happened the night of the fire and the subsequent days. I'm going to keep working it (behind the scenes) because it needs shaping. Please stay tuned. I appreciate your patience. The blogging at this point is an excerise to keep my “game-face” on, so you will probably see more blog entries over the coming days than usual. A few quick updates: -I have a temporary place to live. -The six of us are looking at our possiblities. -Isa, the dog, has a new home in ...
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