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I believe that puzzles can teach us key problem-solving skills.
After all, what is a problem but a puzzle that just might have some less fun, real-life implications?
I’ve written before about how I honed some of these skills as a sixth grade super nerd, finding strategies to win solitaire games that weren’t even meant to be strategic.
Read MoreIn the journey of entrepreneurship, there are a few leaps to make.
One is to go from working for someone else to working for yourself.
Another is to go from being paid directly for the work that you do — often, by the hour — to being paid out of the proceeds of the business.
Read MoreTo get from mainland Greece to the island of Santorini can be done in a few different ways.
You can fly directly from Athens in under an hour.
You can also take a couple of different types of ferries from Piraeus, Athens’ port city. One is a high-speed ferry that takes about four and a half hours. The other runs at a more moderate speed, taking more than seven hours to make the trip.
Read MoreIt’s spring. Finally spring.
Living for many years in Atlanta taught me that even a mild, short winter can seem exhaustingly long. The camellias and pansies bloom all through January and the daffodils show up around Valentine’s Day each year, but the damp, cold days felt endless somehow. I was always just ticking off the days until spring—or at least, spring-like weather.
Read MoreIn my early twenties, when I was trying to figure out my life, I briefly pursued the idea of moving to Boston, which is just over an hour from the small town on the southernmost coast of Maine where I grew up.
On a hot summer day (yes, they have them in New England), I drove down to an outlying commuter station and took the T into Cambridge, where I met with a really cool and interesting young woman and her roommate. They were looking for a third. I remember that the monthly rent for one room of this shared three-bedroom apartment was more than I ended up paying for my first one-bedroom apartment in Atlanta, which was a palace compared to these potential digs.
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