ABOUT

Why "Mimi dot Life"?

"There's no need to spend each night in a marina. There is such a thing as an anchor."

~Kurt Vonnegut

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Join me on my adventures as I say "Good-bye" to the safety of that marina called Corporate America and start living a good life on my own terms, dropping and raising my anchor where ever and whenever I choose, with the help of some good friends along the way.

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For years, I've been writing: fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry, and editorials and photographing the world around me, basically  chronicling my life in words and photos for decades for one reason - to share it.  ​I was a restaurant critic for four years, and a part-time free-lance photo-journalist for the past eighteen years. I've met some amazing people during my travels from all walks of life. I go places, I eat food, I see dragonflies, I taste salt air, and I talk to strangers along the way.  All of these things add value to my life.  I'm hoping to encourage you to look at life the same way.

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But being a traveler wasn't my day job. Woefully shackled into chasing the ersatz American Dream, I got sucked into "office work": wasting forty to sixty hours of life (plus ten or twenty hours of commute) each week in Corporate America, making someone else rich, and living each day in a caste hierarchy...  Every day I sat in horrible meetings with really bad Powerpoint presentations in poorly lit rooms listening to words and phrases like "circle back", "leverage", "stakeholders",  and "ping me", and every day the twenty-first-floor conference room window taunted me... "Jump. Just jump."

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Yet there I dwelled, tormented and anemic, for nearly twenty years.

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"Monday through Friday Office Life" is as foreign to my soul as a drum kit is to a manatee. So how did this become my life? I showed up, learned what to do, and gave my very best effort. I excelled at it, I sucked at it, I faked it, I learned what I did best, I added value, and hated getting up every day... but I kept getting bigger and better jobs.

Call it a come-to-Jesus moment, or a true epiphany. This summer I realized I was dying, (literally... we all are) and that I was throwing my life away... for what?  The corporate world was. not. me. and I needed to get out. It was sucking my soul into atrophy, and I needed to take better care of that soul... take it out and exercise it, drive it around, be its Captain... or else fate would take care of it for me. And kill it.

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Do you see the beauty and history in an old person's wrinkled face and sparkling eyes? Are you kind to injured seagulls?  Do you smile at and talk to lonely people?  Do you share your sandwich just because it's delicious? Do you "put litter in its place"? Do you tell your neighbor that his cow-shaped mailbox makes you happy? When you pay attention to these little things, you will realize that THAT is what life is really all about.

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It's time for me to get it together. Purge the physical anchors, for fucks sake, and set sail! Get rid of material possessions. Travel around and visit new places. Make homemade bread, wine, and soap. I have decided to own my own life and be intentional about it. To live a very simple and basic life where only things that add value to my world will be allowed. You. Can. Do it. Too.

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I’m on a mission to give others a taste of what goes on in my mind. It's a fun place to be... the chaos, the creativity, the exuberance, the taking chances, but mostly the love. And everything in my world is all about LOVE.

Take some time to explore my pages, read something interesting, and feel free to reach out with your thoughts. Some of the best things about sharing stories are the comments one gets in return.

Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the ride.

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I am so happy you're here!