tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79742699679662878312024-03-13T06:16:12.549+02:00...just say phuketali's travel blog (back in the day)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-71087490597816803772017-09-18T16:17:00.000+03:002017-10-02T21:35:41.894+03:00The Rebel, the Rye & Rishikesh
J.D. Salinger, left, after the Normandy invasion. World War II, 1944
September 17, 2017
I didn't know Salinger was in the war (and had PTSD) when he wrote Catcher in the Rye. I knew he went into seclusion and never published again and I knew that he died in 2010. But I didn't know he was big into meditation and Hinduism until I saw it on the screen at River Oaks Theater today while I was Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-34107504123501312792015-03-27T07:32:00.002+02:002015-11-21T19:04:54.239+02:00kukukachu
March 27, 2015, Houston, TX
I’m finally going to get my shit together.
Really.
My dad & sister referred me to an eccentric guy with a long
beard and baby blue eyes who works behind the Boy Scouts building on the third
floor in a windowless office piled with papers, boxes, outdated electronics and
a yellow bound Blogging for Dummies book
atop his file cabinet.
He's a CPA.Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-77296907876104384032014-11-23T23:30:00.000+02:002014-11-24T08:20:01.799+02:00Desire, Drive & Disconnect
November 2014 - Houston, TX. Patio on Sabine.
November 23, 2014
Houston, TX
I’m kicked back on the patio wearing slippers I put on after spotting spiritual guru Gabby B wearing a similar pair in a Facebook post. Danielle LaPorte’s Desire
Map is on my lap and the first few pages have energized me to plot how I
want to feel instead of what I want
to do. JustAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-49285696654939320052014-11-10T05:48:00.000+02:002014-11-24T08:01:29.579+02:00Santa Monica Pier Pressure
Santa Monica, California 11/6/2014
November 9, 2014
I had only fifteen minutes to stare out at the Santa Monica Pier last week during a quick trip following a string of endless weeks of almost continual travel. In the past couple months I've had the privilege of seeing countless inspired thought leaders speak live (including Oprah, Simon Sinek, Elizabeth Gilbert, Malcolm Gladwell andAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-88432419769335505712014-04-03T08:15:00.001+03:002019-02-17T03:35:18.241+02:00A House in the Sky
April 2, 2014
Grapevine, TX
My banker took me to lunch today at an upscale restaurant in a trendy hotel at an intersection of two massive Dallas freeways. He ordered the blackened tuna something-or-other so I said, "I finished a book this morning about a woman who was kidnapped in Somalia and held for 15-months. On release she said she'd never eat tuna again."[bxA]
"The Somali Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-33563919057474635802014-03-11T05:40:00.003+02:002014-03-11T08:19:15.798+02:00Her
Kiss Album Cover - Dynasty (1979)
March 10, 2014 - Grapevine, TX
Tonight I saw the movie 'Her' about a guy who falls in love with his computer's operating system. I felt the plot improbable until she was able to cleanup his email box by extracting the 64 funny-nostalgic emails and delete the 8,000 others in less than three seconds. I'd fall in love with that too. [bxA]
Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-87478770222051982972014-03-04T08:05:00.004+02:002014-03-04T08:07:45.544+02:00Flint & Forleo
March 3, 2014 - Grapevine, TX
I just signed up for an 8-week online course on entrepreneurship. One of my favorite Wayfinder friends texted, "cracks me up that you love all the entrepreneur stuff but don't want to be one..." She's right, I don't know why I'm doing it.[bxA]
Kelli, the one who got me my current job and always offers to let me live in one of the guest rooms in Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-17630835248941860482014-02-23T06:39:00.002+02:002014-02-23T06:46:10.272+02:00Houston in the Blind
RAQs Media Collective, Photograph shown during a lecture
Glassell School of Art, Houston
February 22, 2014
Houston, TX
One of the three members of RAQs Media Collective, a trio of art curators and polemicists, opened the lecture today mentioning a quote from the movie Gravity, "Houston in the Blind." It means, "Houston, we can't hear you, but if you can hear us..Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-37023990922299378892014-02-14T18:52:00.000+02:002014-02-15T19:49:39.289+02:00Virtual Valentine's Day
Arlington, TX - Photo for Webinar Powerpoint Presentation
February 14, 2014
I pasted the heads of our leadership team into cupid bodies and sprinkled them throughout the Powerpoint slides for our Everyone Update webcast today. We're forever looking for little ways to keep our virtual company connected. I'm always never sure I can survive this job because I am what Glen Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-65191605286482671382014-02-10T08:42:00.000+02:002014-02-23T06:50:04.256+02:00Plastic Baby Epiphany
Houston, TX - King cake baby on a Valentine's Day plate at my parents' house.
February 9, 2014
I've been traveling too much for too many weeks while the "next steps" ideas percolate. I'm on the cusp of either becoming more settled, or blowing everything up again. I don't talk about it much because...[bxA] I don't talk much anymore...but I seem to beAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-3438707484419493682014-01-20T07:52:00.003+02:002014-02-10T07:48:08.910+02:00Women & Wine
Grapevine, TX - Eatzi's Bag
January 19, 2014
I was at a little wine & cheese thing with a bunch of women at a house in the suburbs last night. They were all very beautiful, fit, totally together women. They know each other from the gym. Most of them were about a decade older than me, several were recently divorced.[bxA]
We talked about dating. The really tall Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-69660171402599277442014-01-16T08:24:00.002+02:002014-01-20T08:09:12.313+02:00Memorials & Mourning
Dallas, TX - JFK and Jackie
January 15, 2014
Today I took my houseguest to the JFK Memorial in downtown Dallas. We paged through a book in the museum gift shop, slowly reliving the national tragedy of the assassination. Afterward, [bxA] we hit a Mexican restaurant that's been featured on Diners Drive-ins and Dives. We've had a great few days together, connecting Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-6327223905359767052014-01-15T08:51:00.002+02:002014-01-16T18:13:22.824+02:00These Boots
Ft. Worth, Texas - Boot shop at the Stockyards
January 14, 2014
One of my Wayfinder friends is visiting from NJ so we went to the Stockyards in Ft. Worth to feel like Texas and search for the perfect pair of cowboy boots. Tonight after eating scrambled eggs with leftover Mexican food, we brainstormed names for her yoga class and reminisced about the retreat where we met for the first Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-84310054677549643682014-01-10T07:37:00.001+02:002014-01-10T07:37:07.446+02:00Incredible CloudOffice of my morning meeting.January 9, 2014 - Dallas, TXThis morning I used the Waze app on my iPhone to navigate the traffic laden journey to a meeting at the technology company that provides managed services to my company. Basically they are our "IT guy" now that we're too big to have just a guy.The offices were cutting edge cool with lots of comic book memorabilia. My Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-31529712576911511302014-01-09T07:48:00.001+02:002014-01-09T07:50:58.560+02:00Brown Haired Girl
Screenshot from my iPhone.
January 8, 2014 - Grapevine, TX
Today I texted my sister a photo to show her my new hair color. I guess you could say I'm getting back to my roots.
Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-36178222726279138432014-01-08T07:11:00.001+02:002014-01-08T07:11:27.120+02:00Roller Coaster Repair
Six Flags Over Texas - Arlington TX. Amusement park across the street from my office.
January 7, 2013 - Grapevine, Texas. Stasis sucks, but sometimes you gotta stop the ride and do a little maintenance work.
Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-42443502589527042972014-01-07T08:51:00.000+02:002014-01-07T08:56:53.133+02:00On the Ball
January 6, 2013 - Arlington, TX. Outside my office (Texas Rangers Stadium)
I've lost command of my technology. The Google+ app on my iPhone "backs up" every photo then adds special effects like snow falling and Christmas lights twinkling. Almost everyday I get alerts that [bxA] these auto-awesome photos are ready for viewing. I don't know how to stop it and I don't Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-63304979881760068492014-01-06T08:43:00.000+02:002014-01-07T08:56:17.436+02:00The Notebooks
January 5, 2014 - Grapevine, TX. Work notebooks circa 2011-13.
I was about eleven years old when my Language Arts teacher assigned us to write in a journal every day of that semester. Since then I've always seen empty notebooks as blank canvases on which the details of an unknown future would unfold.
Nowadays it's old school to write on paper, but [bxA] the thought of Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-46570921511843342102014-01-05T09:38:00.000+02:002014-01-06T08:51:27.061+02:00Blind Boys & Books
Album Cover: I'll Find a Way, Blind Boys of Alabama.
January 4, 2014 - Grapevine Texas.
After my haircut at Tony & Guy this morning, I ended up on a cushy chair at Barns & Noble reading Coming Apart, about the unprecedented class divergence in white America, while the sound system played gospel songs by the Blind Boys of Alabama.
It's one of those days [bxA] I'm Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-29852516953449245672014-01-04T08:53:00.000+02:002014-01-06T08:50:26.283+02:00Paint It Black
January 2014 - Southlake, Texas. Nail salon next to Ethan Allen.
Today while my toenails were being painted a color called "Voodoo You Do" I lamented that my life needs some magic, black or otherwise. It took several attempts to stop texting on my iPhone and relax into the foot massage, at which point [bxA] the pedicurist's cell phone rang and she talked to the Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-49983737813400696102013-06-20T06:55:00.000+03:002014-01-08T07:17:43.443+02:00Big Time Bottleneck
June 2013 - Arlington, Texas. Refrigerator at work.
I haven't
blogged since May 2011? Sheesh. I tripped and fell head first, smack dab into the center of American
Life. Busy busy busy. Buried.
I’m
suffering from an interpersonal bottleneck [bxA] of epic proportion. Back in September 2010 when the global adventure
skidded to a halt in Texas, I was wholly unprepared for Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-85253747533734657352011-05-23T08:17:00.004+03:002011-05-23T08:29:31.562+03:00Camel in My ClosetApr'11 - Southlake, Texas Art Festival (Artist: DaNisha)May 22, 2011 – Grapevine, TexasThis morning I found the camel with my karma sound asleep in one of my closets. Mad at me. Again. It had taken me days, possibly weeks to notice he’d gone missing.[bxA]“What are you doing in here?” I turned on the light.“What does it matter?” his sulking eyes spoke.“You know I can’t help this, right?” I Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-90379488457146809822011-03-30T06:32:00.002+02:002011-04-01T07:49:39.036+03:00Time in a BottleMarch'11 - My kitchen sink.29 March 2011 - Houston, TX I was packing up to move again when the bottle of dish washing detergent on my sink reminded me of six months ago when I moved into my Houston apartment. The massive cleaning supplies aisle at Target offered endless quantities of enormous containers of every soap under the sun. I opted for the smallest bottle of dishwashing liquid and Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-49050748867979314972011-02-14T06:25:00.006+02:002014-11-12T04:56:59.575+02:00Outfield to Love Field
Feb 2011 – Dallas, Texas. Southwest Airlines Counter at Love Field Airport.
11 February 2011
It was rush hour at the airport and my brain was frazzled from my first week at my new office that overlooks a baseball field. I had my work laptop slung over my left shoulder, my personal laptop slung over my right shoulder, and the silver purse I bought in Kuala Lumpur strapped in the Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974269967966287831.post-24108605054926144032011-01-01T06:48:00.000+02:002011-01-02T07:40:48.856+02:00Houston Holidays Cowboy boots hanging on my mom & dad's tree (Artist: C. Radko). Happy New Year, Y'all !!!Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02708690562971361165noreply@blogger.com2