Car vs. Bus Freedom

Dropped car off for a service in a bland place. Rode the bus to multi-layered Minneapolis. (Behind downtown Lunds.)

Phase 3 Writing

All my life I’ve allowed my audience to constrain my writing.Writing was a product for teachers, academics, engineers, customers, and decision-makers. I succeeded if I satisfied my consumers.The cage door is now open and I am free to step outside. In Life, Phase 3, life untethered from work, I get to write for myself.I get…… Continue reading Phase 3 Writing

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One-Stop Shopping

Freewheel had everything I could possibly want:nCoffee, Ginger and green tea muffin, Tire-Mechanic to install tire

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Travel Gear: Trekking Gloves

In Marketing class I learned about a man who had a bunch of folding stools to sell. He first positioned them as general-purpose folding stools, but there were no takers. He sold them all when he positioned them as fishing stools. A well-positioned product connects with a specific market. With a bit of luck, the…… Continue reading Travel Gear: Trekking Gloves

Queen Boadicea

Caribou Coffee: Demonstrated my extensive knowledge of world history. (Most British schoolkids can answer this one.)

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Gas

It was breakfast at the Granvia Okayama Hotel. The tour group at the next table murmured in agreement as the colonel railed against typographical errors in the itinerary. I pegged him as “the colonel,” now a paper-pusher, close to retirement.  It was impossible to tune him out as he recalled his first encounter with the…… Continue reading Gas

Gas

Posted about gas.

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