Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2014 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2014
2013 5 minutes, 2012 5 minutes, 2011 5 minutes, and 2010 5 minutes
Organizing and reading at Litcrawl
Organizing and leading the aspirational writing group
Finding a writing group of older, experienced people
Dropping out of a memoir writing group because the people didn’t seem right all the way in Oakland
Leading not one, not two, but three startups in a design thinking strategy exercises
Increasing and marketing my skills of design thinking to the world
Succeeding as a UX freelancer and still reaching the salary goal for the year
Attending many many advance movie screenings
Choosing the friends that I really want to be around
Discovering that I really enjoy cooking and baking (when it doesn’t include decorative elements)
Always meeting new people
Learning that some meetups are not really worth it
Reading almost 24 books
Visiting Boston and learning about a friend’s children’s book
Visiting an old style house in Boston with fascinating culture
Visiting Kennebunkport, Maine, the birthplace of George W. Bush
Staying and writing on a windjammer off the coast of Maine
Attending a writing workshop led by Pam Houston
Visiting all the ice cream shops and lobster roll places in the Northeast
Applying to my first writing fellowship (didn’t get in, but failure is expected)
Visiting and interviewing people at Ben and Jerry’s HQ and factory
Staying in the excellent Brooks Art House outside the Vermont capital
Driving through dangerous rainstorm through Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
learning about real maple syrup and realizing that the brown corn syrup isn’t “maple syrup at all”
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