by mdoesthings | Aug 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
It has been exactly 80 days since I said my final teary see-you-laters to Krystal, and boarded my flight back to Minneapolis from my whirlwind year with Remote Year Earhart. In the time it took Phileas Fogg and his trusty valet to circumnavigate the world and win an...
by mdoesthings | Jun 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Its a question that I’ve heard a lot since I’ve started telling people about my acceptance into Remote Year, and it’s only amplified as I’ve gotten closer to my departure date (which, as of the time of this writing, is tomorrow morning). Its a...
by mdoesthings | Jun 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve always struggled with the question “What/where/who do you want to be when you grow up?” Starting as a child and continuing well into my 20s, I’ve heard this question more times I can count. From teachers, family, mentors, friends....
by mdoesthings | Jun 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of my favorite books is The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Inside, we find a homebody hobbit who has lived in one place his entire life, never bothering to venture much further than the fields surrounding his home. And yet he finds himself suddenly swept into an...