Author: jay

I’m a polymath ((Polymath via Wikipedia)). That means I am a “Renaissance soul,” ((On Amazon - The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One)) a “scanner,” ((another link on Amazon))  a “Jack of all trades,” or a “multipotentialite” ((Psychology Today)) on my best days. I have a wide diversity of shifting passions which takes me from one field of interest to another. In many cases I am a dilettante, which most often means a person with a superficial or feigned expertise in a given area (we’ll go with superficial in my case). At the end of the day, I like to think of myself as a Renaissance Soul. It sounds more romantic and creative. I like who I am. As a matter of fact, I’m…

I guess I need to channel my inner crotchety old man.  Sometimes, I feel like I just want to sit on my front porch and yell “You kids get offa my lawn!”  I don’t usually feel like an old crank, but sometimes it happens to the best of us. Lately, I’ve been looking around at other folks who write things that seem similar to mine.  Apparently, by blogging about authenticity and personal change, I fall into a category of bloggers that commonly refer to what they do as “Lifestyle Design.”  Quite by accident, I also learned (the hard way) that some people who write similar things are rather offended by that phrase.  No matter how hard you try, you never know how people will react. What I have noticed after…