Daily Lessons / blog posts

I’m not rich, but I do have a private swimming pool.

How is that possible?

It’s because Bansko becomes a ghost town in the summer. You just have to find a hotel that’s still open, and that has a pool, and viola! you’ve got your own private swimming pool. Read More >

In English, when someone says something you like or agree with, you can say, “You’re speaking my language.”

Here at Nomad Fest, we speak a different language.

Here’s how to start a conversation with a digital nomad. Read More >

Why?

That’s what one reader asks.

Why does someone leave home and family to travel the world and live in foreign countries? Read More >

Greatings from day three at Nomad Fest. 

Lunch in the park.

Two tables. Read More >

Greetings from Nomad Fest!

This week, I’m with several hundred other digital nomads in the mountatins of Bulgaria. 

I’m here to learn and have fun.  Read More >

I learned a new word today.

YOLO.

Well, it’s not really a word, it’s an acronym.  Read More >

At the gym today I tried to make an appointment for a massage.

The therapist asked me for my phone number.

“Nope.” Read More >

Thanks for the comments!

Yesterday I asked you to imagine life without your phone.

Many wished for the simpler times before the smart phone.  Read More >

I was 18.

And it was my first trip to Europe by myself. 

My plan was to meet a high school friend in Paris, at the entrance to the George V metro station at exactly noon. Read More >

There’s a dark and a troubled side of life
There’s a bright and a sunny side, too
Though we meet with the darkness and strife
The sunny side we also may view.

Keep on the Sunny Side
Lyrics by Ada Blenkhorn

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