The Freelancing Life

My Paris Apartment

5 October 2009

My apartment is a little quirky. It’s centrally located, so I can walk everywhere, but it is fairly expensive—for me, not for Paris—so it’ll work for a couple of months, but not for much longer. It’s a fairly large studio in an older building, though not a historic one. I can see one of those […]

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Wrote My First Book!

30 September 2009

That’s right, I am a published author. I guess I already was, but with only a few bylines thus far, each new publication is a major accomplishment. The Little LIP Guide to Alaska is available on the Location Independent website. I’ve become a fan of the site since deciding to become location independent myself—the site […]

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An American in Paris

5 September 2009

With apologies to Gene Kelly… Still, all of the romance and drama, from the movie and from every myth, story and stereotype about Paris are true! Paris, je t’aime! My arrival in France was completely uneventful, much to my relief–or chagrin, as I had expected to be hassled over my one-way ticket and so armed […]

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First Alaska, then the World

7 July 2009

I’ve been an Alaska resident now for about 16 years, minus the time I spent in Portland, Oregon, in college, and some time spent traveling, plus that 3-year stint in Hawaii, when I officially changed my residency. But despite my location changes, my heart has lived here, and though I’ll probably always have the travel […]

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North

19 May 2009

Well, my time here has drawn to a close. Tonight I head back to Alaska, back to Seward for a summer of B&B’ing and, hopefully, a little adventure thrown in. While there were parts of running the B&B that I really enjoyed — meeting fellow travelers from all over the world, each with their own […]

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