Top Ten: Things that always make me happy

Obviously I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately.  I will admit that lately I’ve been second guessing my ability to do this: be a freelance writer.  It’s not the writing that’s hard, it’s the writing enough that is.  In order to really make a living doing this I pretty much need to write [...]

The Kim Commandments: Top ten rules I live by

We all have a different code of rules that are ingrained in us whether we know it or not.  Little truths or rules that we live by each and everyday.  Mostly, I think those come more from our life experiences than anything we’re taught in golden books or Disney movies.  I’ve been thinking a lot [...]

Answering Myself

When I was in college, and just wanted to think I would go to the museum of fine arts in Boston and just sit in the Buddha room.  Inside were Buddhas from all over the world, hundreds of years old. Thousands, possibly millions  of people had prayed before them, and I could sense the strong [...]

Eating Israel

Every Birthright organizing organization has a different theme.  Some are more focused on religiosity, some on sight seeing or nature.  I happened to be on the “Humping in the Holy Land” trip.  I’d heard that the group I went with was slightly heavier on the partying than the other organizing groups, but seeing as how [...]

Tough times for an optimist

I had a lovely lunch yesterday over the house of a fellow blogger, where we had soup and wine and watched Oprah and talked about blogging and book writing and life and how the media world is going to pot and neither of us have any idea what the next step is.  It’s refreshing that [...]