I don’t support many causes and the ones I do think are worth supporting are truly universal. Emily Fitchpatrick’s is one of those causes. I met Emily online shortly after she left Billy Graham’s ministry to start her own - rescuing children from the sex trade all over the world. She was looking for a freelance graphics person. I was looking for work. And we found each other on elance.com. I learned a lot from Emily. It was humbling and sobering and shocking.
I learned that the average age of a …

Having come from an abusive background I spent most of my life not recognizing unsafe people. I don’t mean the ones who will rob, beat, steal and rape you - but the ones who say they’re your friend, then betray, use or abandon you. They’re generally charming, funny, intelligent or have some great first glance personality gold going for them. Then you need them, or trust them or interact with them and they disappear, withdraw or leave. You know the ones. We’ve ALL encountered them. Some of them have been …

Back when I had time to burn, I did. I never paid that much attention to how long something took, or the cost of doing one thing over another. I have some regrets about those days, but I don’t dwell on them. Recently however I’ve been paying more attention to my time - what it’s worth, who values it, how I spend or if I invest it. So I’ve started noticing some things - Like how little other people will value our time if we let them. It’s part …

I love serendipity. It gifts me with the most amazing people when I pay attention. I write for Airstream Life Magazine on occasion. And I recently got an email from the editor about a possible story after a photographer sent him some photos. Nice photos. Nice photographer. Great story. But then serendipity stepped in. Being insanely curious I started talking to the photographer (Alison Turner) because, well, I like to hear people’s stories. Turns out Alison likes to live out of her car just like me. She has a house, …