Category: Blog

How my yard sign collection grew during 2020

My yard sign collection has grown over the past year —  Partly due to quarantine. Partly due to racial injustice. Partly due to my Selfish Sabbatical. Partly due to new […]

Return From My Selfish Sabbatical

For more Selfish Sabbatical images, see end of post UPDATE: I learned about a company that gives its employees a paid three month sabbatical every five years. Enjoyed reading how […]

Live Elsewhere Experiment

For Chattanooga recommendations, scroll to end, just above photos We’re back. (I hope you’re envisioning Michael Jordan circa 1995 and his famous two-word fax…) In an effort to inject positive […]

2020 Life of Yes℠ Gift Guide

It’s that time of year again. Where I tell you what I love or aspire to love and you then decide if any of my loves would make a [chef’s […]

I’m on a Selfish Sabbatical

UPDATE: The follow up to this is here. If you ask me for anything July through August 2020, I will answer — I’ve actually been on a Selfish Sabbatical (SFSB) […]

GUEST POST — Travel: One is the Magic Number

This is a Guest Post by Cheese-It DeLonda Dowling. Or is it DeRhonda? Delores? Jane? (People butcher our names all the time. I often get “Sara” like I’ve misspelled my […]

2019 Life of Yes℠ Gift Ideas

If you’ve been in my vicinity for a second or three, you know that I value efficiency, ease, commonsense, laughter, frugality yet also paying top dollar for things & people […]

Travel: Life of Yes℠ Japan

UPDATE: No, we don’t do travel consulting. No, we don’t have a magic wand you can borrow and no we can’t easily tell you how to score this first-class deal […]