Maine resident, Ray LaMontagne woke at 4AM to his alarm clock blaring Stephen Stills's "Treetop Flyer." It moved him so much, He skipped work that day. He would of normally gone off to do a 12 hour shift in a shoe factory. He sold his VW bus and bought a quality guitar. Quit his job and and ...

Does Adam Bevell have a new career?  The 36 year old Mesa, Arizona man who became blind as an adult, was at the U2 concert in Nashville on July 2nd. Standing in the front row, he was holding a small sign that read, "Blind guitar player. Bring me up." Just when Bevell thought the concert was ove...

Canadian singer - songwriter Ron Sexsmith didn't put out his first record until he was 31. That's old in the music business. Now at 47, Sexsmith describes himself as a work in progress.

by Mike Kravinsky

My Sister-in-Law Phyllis decided several months ago to train a seeing eye puppy. She, and the family just received Knight. So, let the training begin. All sorts of rules, where to poop, when to rest, not to get too excited. Did I mention this is a puppy? All this with Teddy, their big ol' Lab in the...

As always, I'm on top of the news. Except this time. I read several articles on the job market today. They were at least a month old. Apparently, some workers are seeing  a light at the end of the recession tunnel. From February to April, more people quit their jobs than were laid off. The Bure...

Predictions of what will be next are usually wrong. Sometime laughably. Take for example the 1950's "in the future"  films, usually put out by some manufacturer. What we'll drive. How the kitchen of the future will be free of work, with the housewife dancing around the kitchen.  Needless t...

Second acts go in different directions. Small business owner, author, volunteer. The list is endless. Then there's the arts. From time to time, I meet people who gave up some sort of creative work as a young person choosing a more stable career. Now, 30 or 40 years later they revisit the first choic...

I came across an Etsy blog not too long ago. There's a section in there called Quit Your Day Job. One of the latest blogs was on a jeweler named Rachel Blakley. She did a Q & A on what prompted her to leave a position with an interactive web development company in Seattle, to form her Etsy store...