This journey took a turn for homecare today. Andrea had come over asking for any food for her dog, as the food she had prepared had turned. I had thought this was odd, but gave what I had on hand and decided to visit her the next day to see how she and her dog were doing. When I arrived, the house door was open, the screen door closed and locked, and she was walking the property with her little…
I have a hard time with control. I have the best time when I surrender my control and let events roll out as they will. I know this to my core and yet…I struggle. I want to control my environment and everything in it, or at least that’s what I tell myself. What I really enjoy doing is letting go, although this is the hardest state for me to regain. In fact, I can’t try to get there. It’s more…
Part of this experience is to discover myself. Not only does every meeting, chance or intentional, bring new stories, each one changes me in imperceptible ways. I realized on Christmas Day that I needed to reveal myself too throughout this journey. Yesterday my struggle was the bacon. I had thought I mastered this delicious substance years ago. And yet I panicked before my mom and sister came over. I overthought it and my partner came to the rescue. I avoid…
I’ve become increasingly interested in the healing properties of different stones. Whether it’s the rocks themselves or being reminded of their natural qualities throughout the day as I aspire to embody those qualities, I soak up their wisdom. I currently have six pieces of honey calcite given by one of my connections on this journey. The gift was so tenderly done and when I searched the stones on Google, I found they embody personal growth, clarity, and empowerment, three qualities…
It amazes me how easily I can pick up a conversation out of anywhere. And yet the wonder holds each time I make a new connection. I will be sitting at a Barnes & Noble cafe, getting the mail, or walking at the park and I’ll meet someone new. Someone I’ve never spoken to before. And we’ll connect over something small. A shared love of French, a fine arts degree, how hard Mondays can be. And then the moment will…
I started this journey with the intention of creating momentum and community. So far I’ve connected with 96 human beings starting with friends and family. So many of the folks who participated gave more than a dollar, in the spirit of sponsoring someone who was unable to give a dollar, but wished to join. I have an abundance of dollars for sponsorships, $313.25 as a matter of fact, to share with those folks who would like to participate. I have…
I’ve returned to this journey I started in 2020. It’s time to become the one dollar millionaire. This year, 2025, marks the midpoint of the journey I set out to take. So many events have taken place and I haven’t recorded any of them. Until today. November 2025, the day before my birthday, brought another seizure into my life. I crashed directly into scaffolding, hurting no one and nothing, except my right foot. It fractured into many pieces and I’m…
I’m very happy this is a ten year journey. It gives me plenty of time to stray on my path and still reach my ultimate goal. After my last post back in January, I had a couple of obstacles get in my way. One was I got locked out of my website and couldn’t prove I was the owner. Finally as the end of this year approached I finally got a real phone number to call with a person on…
I met Laura at work, shelving books, organizing the cafe menu bar scanner options, and discussing her ongoing OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). As my fifteenth participant, she gave me very specific instructions about her $22 contribution. $1 was for her, $3 to sponsor three other people, and the remaining $18 were to be turned into nine $2 bills to be handed out as I went about the journey. She mentioned that she had a story she would tell me about…
This project deals a lot with trust, the tiniest expression of trust in the $1 being given and in the person listening to my journey. I’ve started thinking a lot about how to build elements of this trust as I go up to people in real life. I avoid going up to people in parking lots. I use shopping carts at Target and Walmart to create space and a safety zone between me and the person I’m speaking with. I…