About Seamripper
I’ve been blogging since 2000, with a few breaks in between, mostly on seamripper.wordpress.com and www.commamommas.com/seamripper. I recently decided to gather all my blogs together here. So this is where you’ll find posts from the Jersey Girls’ Guide to Grub, Democrafts (which chronicled left-leaning crafty endeavors), 78rpm (my ill-fated music blog), and various other blogs that I was very passionate about for a very limited time.
About Une Americaine a Paris
I took a travel writing class last fall. I’m not really sure why; I don’t do very much traveling. Between my editors’ salary, my perpetual agonizing over my financial situation, and my tendency to overbook myself, I had trouble allowing myself to go.
The teacher, Jay Cooke, kept talking about the phenomenon of the Big Trip. He said that your goal should be to get so many assignments that you make money on the trip. That was the permission I needed to finally visit my friends Neumann and Liz in London. Then, while watching Anthony Bourdain’s travel show (the Paris episode), my roommate Kerry mentioned that it’s super easy to get from London to Paris. Done and done. Two places I’ve always wanted to go rolled up in one.
Of course, I didn’t bother getting any freelance assignments, but c’est la vie. I’m already planning a return trip.
Nicole,
I have done this very thing!! Planned a trip, intending to nab a freelance assignment, and then just taken the trip anyway. Great fun. Worth doing. You never know when the story will come out of you. So, get this: the trip I took to the Channel Islands between England and France last year and planned to write about for the Wall Street Journal (never happened) may now end up as an anecdote in someone else’s NYT Magazine article!!!
From Google > LexisNexis press release > bNet.com > LinkedIn > Your blog. Lovely how you get surprised sometimes when you’re just strolling around on the internet. Very inspiring blog!
Hi,
A friend reads your blog and read the things I covet:Colleen Keenan Handbag. It’s always nice to hear that people enjoy them. Well I’m back after moving, having baby#2 and adjusting to life in the South. My new line will launch in the spring with some fresh designs and of course the favorites. Let me know if you want to be notified of the launch.
I don’t normally read blogs only because I don’t know what to look for, but I’ve had fun reading yours!
Colleen