Welcome to Kick in the Breeches, a blog at the crossroads of travel and lifestyle design.
When I started blogging 10 years ago the idea of professional bloggers didn’t even exist. When I started my current blog while living in Korea, I had no idea that one day want to be a part of that group. I started my blog, DriftingFocus, as a personal travelogue about living on Jindo, a very rural island off the southwestern coast of South Korea. Eventually, it evolved to include personal content, and when I moved …
I’ve discussed here before the fact that I don’t sleep much. Most of that is natural short-sleeping; I sleep through the night, it’s just a short night – usually around 1a-7am. However, sometimes I just can’t get to sleep, or I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back asleep. I would hesitate to call it insomnia, because it doesn’t happen often, but it happens enough that I have a strategy for dealing with it.
You see, if I can’t sleep, I simply don’t. If …
Of all the topics that folks ask me about, one of the ones I get asked about the most is also one of the most dear to my heart: Independence
Independence can mean different things for different people. For a college graduate still living at home, independence might mean how to feel like an adult while still sharing a wall with mom and dad. For a divorcee in their forties, independence might mean how to positively embrace their newfound status. For still others it might simply mean …
Yay! I’m less of a freak than I thought I was!
I have generally required far less sleep than my friends, and it has baffled many. My natural sleep pattern, when left to my own devices and without obligations, is from about 2am until 8am. I wake up energized and find that I can be fully productive within about 2-3 minutes. I don’t really nap during the day unless I’ve had a very physically strenuous or psychologically stressful day, and I have generally seemed to have more energy in general than …
[Note: This entry is actually crossposted from my personal blog. I felt its theme fit in over here as well.]
I don’t often speak of my pre-college (or hell, pre-Korea) life on this blog very often, but I really should. Something most of my readers probably don’t know about me is that I used to be a professional tall ship sailor. We’re not talking sailboats, we’re talking ships like the one on the right. I sailed for about 7 years and I consider my experiences on ships …
Today marks the beginning of my attempt to go one full month without eating any kind of sugar-based sweets. As I mentioned in the post where I originally planned this, I have a bit of an addiction to sugar-sweetened foods, and I feel that they have more of a hold over me than I am comfortable with. Thus, in order to help loosen that grip, I have decided to go one full month without eating sugar-based sweets of any kind. No gummi bears, no cupcakes, no cookies, …
