Bartering to live

If the world worked on a barter system, how would you fare? Would you have services to barter? Would you be successful, or would you struggle? http://www.quora.com/Balaji-Viswanathan-2/answers/Barter-System We had somewhat of a "dop-stelsel" at work last week with the IT guy next door.  The "dop-stelsel" refers to a, less than popular, system used during the …

Turning the tables

Are you as comfortable in front of a camera as behind one? Being written about, as well as writing? I'm definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, a behind the scenes kind of girl.  I lost the ability to be photogenic somewhere around my 13th birthday and I simply don't make for good pictures.  On …

A rolling stone

If you could live a nomadic life, would you? Where would you go? How would you decide? What would life be like without a “home base”? I have always had a wandering soul and I'm pretty sure that I was born 20 years too late.  Hippie-ness is definitely in my blood.  Even though I love …

Nostalgic

This week's Weekly Photo Challenge asks us to post a photo which brings a sense of nostalgia to us. For some reason I have been thinking a lot about life and our mortality lately.  When my mom posted this photo on Facebook, it brought such a sense of nostalgia, I just knew that it was …