Tag: sabbatical
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fall into quitting
Autumn approaches and I prepare to cross the first seasonal threshold of my adventure in life-skewing decisions. I quit in the spring. I stopped working in the summer. I tiptoe towards fall with an odd sense of nextness that I can’t quite put my finger upon. It may be that I’ve been delving into the…
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part three
Let’s recap. In part one of this saga, having just days prior made an exit from my job of thirteen years, the family and I boarded a plane to London. Following that was three weeks of European adventuring, photography, sketching, food, museums, wandering, trains, tours, and fun. In part two the epic saga continued as…
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California Dreaming
Yesterday I booked a flight to California. My uncle passed away last week, and so I’m escorting my mom down to the memorial service. On my big long list of “things to accomplish on my career break” I’d actually listed “take a weekend trip with one or both of my parents” and as it turns…
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fence post haste
I stole that pun from the bag of cement mix that I picked up at the hardware store this morning during my first “outdoor activity” appointment. Yesterday I wrote that I’d be slipping into an effort of timeboxing my unscheduled days to ensure that I wasn’t slipping into a post-employment slouch pattern involving too many…
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timeboxing
As I work to get my sabbatical in order, I’ve been contemplating various strategies. The first thing I had done was to make a long list of things I wanted to accomplish. At the risk of undermining that effort, I do think the list is almost impossibly long. It’s as much aspirational as achievable, but…