Comments on Life on the High Wire: I’ve Only Been Asked to Leave Once

Kathy - Great comment. I'm with you, I'd r...

2009-11-06T07:22:46.343-05:00

Kathy - Great comment. I'm with you, I'd rather leave my options open than stay put, but perhaps at the expense of community or relationships. I struggle with it, but I obviously value roots less because I've never let geography constrain me. Sounds like it's the same for you.

(I'm crossing my fingers for you and Kauai!)

a friend recently said to me "don't you w...

2009-11-05T22:20:22.700-05:00

a friend recently said to me "don't you want any roots?" i replied, "it's not that i don't want roots. i'm just open to the opportunities that arise in my life." and if an opportunity to move to kauai to start my own business presents itself to me, who am i to turn that down?! especially if it's my life's purpose and passion.

It makes me wonder what might come next, what I...

2009-11-03T14:20:13.044-05:00

It makes me wonder what might come next, what I'll bloom into later on. Now I'm perfectly happy as a writer and teacher, but might that change? Or maybe it will always be those two things, but in different forms?

When I was a singer/songwriter I knew I wouldn't do that forever, and the same with my businesses. But writing and teaching feel like vocations I could happily spend the rest of my life doing. The challenge and satisfaction of both seem never ending.

It's been a long and tortuous road for me to g...

2009-11-03T02:10:03.643-05:00

It's been a long and tortuous road for me to get to this very good place in my life. Two years ago, on my 45 birthday, my little sister gave me a painting with an e.e. cummings quote on it: "It takes courage to grow up to become who you really are." That about sums it up - I don't really mind so much that it took me this long. I'm just grateful that I'm here.

Great post! I so relate.

2009-11-02T16:18:00.271-05:00

Great post! I so relate.

I'm definitely a late bloomer. Christopher Moo...

2009-11-02T15:54:15.781-05:00

I'm definitely a late bloomer. Christopher Moore's author bio says something like, "I'm the world's oldest child prodigy." I wrote my first story when I was five, and I worked in publishing for years, but it's been just in the past three years that I have really focused on writing. Half the challenge is making the time for it, not allowing the daily drivel (or even occasional major drivel) to get in the way.

LOL@"adorable, tiny royalties." Greg Ki...

2009-11-02T15:35:16.680-05:00

LOL@"adorable, tiny royalties."

Greg Kihn (remember "Our Love's in Jeopardy" back in the '80s?) is now a morning drive-time DJ on KFOX in San Jose ("KFOX 98.5, the classic rock experience"). He refers to those royalties as "mailbox money."