Once I had my condo ready to show, I had time on my hands between showings. Of course, I continued working on my novel, but when that wasn’t occupying me I began planning my year of travel. I definitely didn’t know where I wanted to go, what order, or for how long. I was just…
Author: margrad80
I am a retired Merchant Mariner, a retired Marine Surveyor, and a currently active novelist. I am starting this blog to follow my life in retirement, as I follow a more inconvenient life.
The Car is Gone, the Condo is Next
After a few months of retirement, I found that I was becoming restless. It wasn’t that I wanted to go to sea again. I don’t. I just wanted to get out of my routine and do the things I hadn’t had time for when I was working. I wondered if I could afford to travel…
Life gets in the way.
Not long after I started this blog I got sick. It wasn’t too bad, just a cold. After a week of having the cold, I was better and back to blogging for one day. I was back to my normal routine for just one day. Then a got the flu! Two weeks of the flu,…
Life on limited FaceBook
Well, it has been over two months since I deleted my old FaceBook account and started the more clean impersonal account. I still keep face book off my iOS devices. Having to make the effort to go to my desktop to check on face book, makes it where I check only every few weeks. Since…
To FaceBook or not to FaceBook
Along with so many other people, I decided to delete FaceBook. It sounds easy, but how can I really one day cut off so many people, who I only have contact with through this app? My first contact with internet social was on message boards, which I visited during college. When I found chat rooms,…
Dream Houses
All my life I have had dreams about houses. I was probably about 23-years-old when I noticed that the dreams had a connecting theme, though the houses, which I dreamed of, were all different. I can vividly remember a few of them, though there were many more that have slipped my mind, and I am…
A Simple Hack
Have you ever found yourself needing to read something on a web page, but the bouncing flashing ads and auto play videos keep drawing your eyes away, even when you have muted the sound?
What is an Inconvenient Life?
I was getting a bit ahead of myself in writing about streamlining my life. Let me explain the how and why of this Inconvenient Life thing. The term only popped into my mind a few weeks ago, when I was trying to explain to an old friend how my life had changed since I moved…
Three Inconvenient Soups
These three soups have no real recipes. Each came about through sheer happenstance. Once or twice a week I walk to one of the local farmers’ markets. My two favorite are the Honolulu Farmers’ Market , fronting the Concert Hall on the corner of Ward Ave. and King St on Wednesdays at 4pm, and the Kaka’ako Market, which takes…
Marie Kondo to the rescue!
I have always reacted to stress in my life by trying to bring beauty and order to my personal life. The El Faro sank on October 1, 2015. When it happened I was pretty busy working as a Port Relief Officer at the Matson docks and later as third mate aboard the Matson ship M/V…