I want to start over. I need a new life. I want to go somewhere far away. You’ve reached a major turning point in your life. For one reason or another, you want to say goodbye to your old life and start a new chapter. This is not a decision to be made lightly, but at...
Almost everything I owned was strapped to my person. I gripped my one-way ticket as I stood at my gate in the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The rental car turned in. Draped in three different jackets to beat the checked bag weight restrictions, I triple...
Some days it seems as if everyone else is doing so much better than we are. How is that everyone has it together, while we’re just floundering? Good news! You’re not alone. First of all, they all feel the same way. Second, you can end the pity party and begin working...
Humanity is cursed with self-awareness. We want to live intentionally, we want to feel fulfilled, we seek purpose and meaning in everything. We fear emptiness, the void where a sense of self should be. We loathe the idea that we could wander through life only to...
Welcome to #DifferentLifeStories, where Without Boxes is sharing how people are living differently right now in the real world. Enter Emily: [hr] My life has turned out in a way I never pictured and that no one ever saw for me. I spent the first 19 years of my life...
My cell phone died recently, which meant I had to go to the cell phone store. Just typing that gives me the shivers. Going to the cell phone store is a huge pain. There are a lot of shiny lights and expensive gadgets and people wanting to sell me things I really don’t...
I am scared and have been since I was a kid. Fear of new things, people and, most of all, the things people say about me. It’s disturbing that the sayings I remember most are from when I was fairly young. Such as the fact I needed to smile more, that I was selfish and...
Decisions are incredibly personal. We each make a million a day and tend to live with the consequences. Both of our own decisions, and that of those around us. The Nature Of Decisions There are big decisions, there are small decisions. There are decisions that...
Welcome to #DifferentLifeStories, where Without Boxes is sharing how people are living differently right now in the real world. Enter Alan: [hr] At the age of 36 I left the secure world of corporate America and vowed never to return. After purchasing this boat I had...