Fighting for Substance

A quarter-life crisis to be followed by a mid-life crisis to be followed by a late-life crisis to be followed by death

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and the subsequent movie starring Ed Norton, Jr and Brad Pitt, I think, serves as one of the great stories about modern man’s dissatisfaction with his lot in [...]

May 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Whether pigs have wings | Comments are closed

Having the courage to change

The freedom to change our lives, as we ostensibly have in Amrikan society, is largely an illusion without possessing the courage to change our lives. It is believed that roughly 80% of the people on this planet (if not more) do not like their jobs. But they find a way, some way, somehow, to [...]

May 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Why the sea is boiling hot | Comments are closed

Rocketman

I never get tired of take-off. In 5 years of steady and sometimes mind-numbing travel at Cerner, I got tired many things about the vagabond lifestyle. I got tired waking up at 4:00 AM on Mondays, getting home too late on Thursday, living out a suitcase, surprised friends when I turned up at the local [...]

April 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Correspondence | Comments are closed

The Terrors of Owning Furniture

The Vagabond Class and the Third Culture Kid

I sometimes wonder how the instability of my 5 years with Cerner has shaped my life in a way that just doesn’t happen to people with “normal” lives. I spent 5 years leading a somewhat vagabond life. Actually, moreso than being a vagabond, my lifestyle was geared [...]

August 7th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Why the sea is boiling hot | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)