Life-changing Experience Gifts

George has an uplifting experience.

"Oh indeed I did: I went feral for a year when I was young. It taught me a lot about the world, but about myself too..."

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"It's not face paint. I'm transitioning into a snow leopard."

Nurse pushing the Grim Reaper out of the Surgery room.

Teacher has two boxes: "Book Smart" and "Street Smart"

Life and Death

"Hon, I'm taking your advice and starting a new chapter."

University of Hard Knocks

'Guess what! I got my act together! And this is it!'

Women

'My parents couldn't afford to send me to college, so they let me spend a night at a Ramada.'

"Do you know the biggest thing I've learned in my thirty nine years?"

Moral Values for Dummies

"I think I'm ready to go forth and multiply."

'So, just how long were you at the School of Hard Knocks?'

The Manifestation of Dreams

"Even when this drought is over, things will never be the same."

"Yes, many of us have had life changes since you switched focus to Environmental Law."

Bob's Photography Full Service: Baby Pics, Graduation, Wedding, Crime scene, Aautopsy.

'You're trying to reinvent yourself, aren't you?'

"Wow, I wish I'd thought of that! My last words were pretty naf."

We only go round once, but it can be quite the loop-de-loop! (Published originally on December 21, 2013.)

"Of course I still do stupid stuff. But now much slower and with far less frequency and zeal."

Starting School

'I'm what you can't learn at Harvard Business school.'

'So one day I said to myself, 'What am I doing living in this run down house when I could be living on my boat?'

Man walking past the offices of the medical practitioners needed throughout the course of life.

"Bob managed a good retirement, saw a thing or two."

"Since we're about experiences and not things, I didn't bother with a ring."

Reading a biography makes me feel like a surgeon. I'm holding a person's life in my hands.

'Go away! I'm de-cluttering my life!'

Fish pedicures - a woman with her feet in goldfish bowls, with the fish complaining about what they have to eat since the beauty craze took off.

'Let me guess, a graduate of the 'school of hard knocks'?'

'I see from your CV that you have a first class degree from the School of Hard Knocks'