10 MORE Things I Wish I Knew Before Traveling: Blogger Roundup
14 CommentsTwo weeks ago, I wrote about 28 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Traveling. That post received a lot of feedback, and generated a good discussion about buying…
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Dear Silent Majority, I Need Your Feedback…
45 CommentsI had dinner with a couple of friends on Saturday night. While we were sitting outside on a warm Seattle evening, we spent some time talking about this writing project.…
The Normalization of Mediocrity
30 CommentsI recently came back to Seattle after traveling for two weeks, and began eating simple, organic food again. I’m a vegetarian wherever I go, but I don’t always eat very…
Candlelit Notes from a Dismal Hotel Room
4 CommentsI’m sitting in what may be the most dreary hotel room I have ever stayed in, which is saying a lot. My room is the size of a large closet,…
Art and Sacrifice: Interview with Robert Bruce
34 CommentsRobert Bruce says that the most difficult thing about his chosen art form is having the title poet attached to him. Yes, Robert says, he is a real-life poet, but…
The Land of Too Much
9 CommentsTwo years ago I was working in Liberia, West Africa and came to Chicago for a three-day conference. Coming out of West Africa to Europe and then North America is…
The Road to Damascus
8 CommentsSometimes it seems that wherever I go in the world, I’m always too early or too late to the party. One week ago today I was hanging out in Beirut,…
From Easter Island to Beirut, Lebanon
8 CommentsTrip Update: I haven’t had a lot of time to post reports from my trip to South America and the Middle East, so while I’m hanging out in transit today,…
Questions to Ask When the World Isn’t Going Your Way
30 CommentsEven on the path to your ideal world, things don’t always go the way you would like them to. All of us learn of bad news from time to time.…
28 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Traveling
88 CommentsWhen you first head off to places in the world that are a lot different from where you live, a number of things change. You have to learn to adapt.…
Site Update: April 2008
16 CommentsLive from Syria This month’s Site Update takes place from Damascus, Syria, where I’ve just arrived after traveling overland from Lebanon. Yes, I think that sentence is pretty cool. All…
Selling Service and Shoes: Interview with Tony Hsieh of Zappos.com
Comments Off on Selling Service and Shoes: Interview with Tony Hsieh of Zappos.comAs a new feature on The Art of Nonc-Conformity site, I’ll be posting profiles of individuals, companies, and non-profit organizations that have chosen alternative paths in pursuit of their goals.…
How To Fall Down and Get Back Up Again
15 CommentsThis is a lesson on how to look absolutely ridiculous in front of a crowd of strangers, and how to recover as gracefully as possible. Well, let’s clarify that a…
On Being Homeless for 35 Minutes in Central London
31 CommentsA couple of years ago, I was in London on a three-day layover after flying in from Africa. I had been in Sierra Leone for several months and was looking…
So, about that social networking thing…
14 CommentsI finally broke down and joined part of the social networking revolution. I’m officially no longer behind the rest of the world, at least in one aspect: I’ve been using…
