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photo by Daniel T. Yara I haven’t been posting as often because I’m preparing for my trip to Singularity University next week. I will have the second half of the interview with Shannon up on Wednesday, and another post scheduled for the week I’m at SU. I will be tweeting about [...]  Shannon on Isle of Skye, Scotland Interviewing Phil Paoletta last month was so much fun that I decided to interview another travel blogger, Shannon O’Donnell. She left Los Angeles, California in November 2008 to travel around the world by herself. Shannon is currently taking a pause from long term travel in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and rooming with Jodi from Legal Nomads. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did! Jennifer Barry: First of all, thanks for doing the interview! So, why did you decide to leave LA and travel for a long period of time? Shannon O’Donnell: I was in LA and I felt like the city was crushing my soul. If you read the blog back then, like some of those earliest entries, I hate on Los Angeles so much. I really wasn’t pleased with how things were going and just the style of living. You have to be in your car all the time. I thought to myself, I’ve told everybody, I love traveling, I’m a global citizen, and all I had done was a study abroad program in Italy. That’s it. I had done a little bit of Europe, and then I came back home, and I hadn’t been anywhere else. So I asked myself, do I want to be in Los Angeles and do I want to be an actress for the next 10 years, or do I want to leave and travel for a while and maybe go back there later? And then the next day I got a one-way ticket to Australia. Continue reading A Brand New Role: An interview with Shannon O’Donnell
Never one to back down from a dare, I decided this would be my response to Christine’s challenge to do something alone. A trip to the local Korean style bathhouse sounded like a great way to get out of my comfort zone and experience something totally new. Although King Spa is an impressive 34,000 square feet, I drove by it the first time as it’s tucked down a driveway past wicker giraffes covered in tiny blue lights. The entryway is grand, with lion statues and a red and gold motif. When I admitted I was a newbie to the guy at the counter, he was friendly and pleased to explain everything. After you pay, I got my bracelet with a key and number tag. Then I grabbed my “uniform” and immediately took off my shoes as required before entering the spa. I’m sure this helps keep the place very clean. Continue reading Seoul Seeker  Boston - to move, or not to move? This is another post I’ve meant to do for a while. Raam did a post called 7 Pieces of Advice for My Younger Self back in July, and I found out that Abubakar and Farnoosh were organizing a whole series on this subject. Then I promptly forgot until Bryan at ElevationLife wrote his letter to his teenage self. Even though I didn’t finish this soon enough to be in the ebook on this subject, I recommend you check it out. It’s free! ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Dear Jennifer, First of all, break up gently with your boyfriend. I know he’s your first serious relationship, but he ends up costing you a lot of time and money, and the relationship goes nowhere. You make innumerable decisions on what to do and where to go because of him, many of which don’t make any sense in hindsight. Continue reading Advice to My 18 Year Old Self  US citizens can leave, but they still have to pay taxes. I continue my interview with Adrian S., a married man with a family who sold most of his possessions in search of a better life. He is disturbed about the direction the US is taking, politically, economically, and socially. Links to earlier parts of the interview can be found at the end of this post. Jennifer Barry: I’m very concerned about the effect of the housing bust on the US. The people who bought near the top could wait more than a decade to see the prices rebound. Too many won’t be able to hold on that long. A lot of these middle-class families aren’t middle-class anymore, they just don’t know it yet. Adrian S.: Yeah, I feel like a whole new system is being put into place. But people are buying into this idea that it’s all just a big accident, we didn’t realize what was going to happen if we had all these crazy derivatives and such and that the bankers were just a little over-enthusiastic and they’re sorry. Continue reading Stranger in His Own Land, Part 12 I’m proud to say that today is the one year anniversary of Live Richly. I didn’t know if it would last this long. I started it as an experiment to learn about social media and marketing, but it turned out I really liked blogging for its own sake. One of the best part [...]
So what is making food cost so much? The first problem is that demand for food is heating up. When people become more prosperous in developing countries, the first thing they buy is more food. They buy luxury foods they couldn’t afford before, especially meat. As each pound of meat requires several pounds of grain to produce, the world must grow more grains just to keep up. Ironically, the desire to “go green” is putting pressure on the food supply. Biofuels like ethanol are usually made from food. Every time you fill up your gas tank with food based fuel, you make it more expensive for yourself at the grocery store. Add government subsidies promoting ethanol to the mix, and you get artificial demand for grains. Continue reading Egypt, Bernanke, and the Rising Cost of Food My husband David and I have I’ve been thinking about why we’ve lasted so long, and why we are even happier now than we were at the beginning. Here are my 10 keys to a great relationship: 1. Take space – My husband and I spend a lot of time together. However, we don’t do everything together. I don’t go to his makerspace meetings and he doesn’t attend my yoga classes. Even when we are both home, we might be working on different projects and not talking.
I’ve always believed in the philosophy, “You made your bed, now lie in it.” When I lost half my savings in the stock market crash of 2000, I figured it was my fault for not understanding what I was investing in. I’ve never collected unemployment or other benefits even when I qualified for them, since I was always able to (mostly) scrape by with a poorly paid job. If you asked me just 10 years ago if homeowners should continue to pay on their underwater mortgages, I would have said, “Absolutely.” However, the current US housing armageddon has caused me to change my mind. Continue reading In Defense of Default Here is the tenth installment of my series which spotlights content I’ve been enjoying recently. These links are listed in no particular order. I hope they help you to live a little more richly! On his blog, The Grouch celebrates Ben Franklin’s birthday with a list of great quotes from this wise man. [...] |
 
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