tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-558451 2016-09-16T15:31:04+02:00 What can be learned about meaningfulness from (sometimes courageously, often foolishly, even so persistently and with a needed touch of mischief) taking the next step TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e3b8b53ef01b7c893c4d6970b 2016-09-16T15:31:04+02:00 2016-09-16T15:38:10+02:00

...Still making it up as I go, I decided to take a gap year Three decades late That's because I'm now, officially Not a Backpacker Maybe I'll catch that truck yet! :)

Jill Allemang tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e3b8b53ef019b0046e8e6970d 2013-10-24T20:26:32+02:00 2013-10-24T20:24:47+02:00

As I bared publicly some months ago, the object of my first (big screen) love affair hung around in dark caves and took great pleasure in provoking the Gods, bad guys and women to give chase. This month, the creator...

Jill Allemang tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e3b8b53ef0192ac1eb154970d 2013-07-21T17:53:12+02:00 2013-07-21T17:57:24+02:00

This is a very important cow in my life. I met her right after making peace with myself about something. She was in my Swiss hiking path, naturally. There is always a cow. I heard once that peace comes with...

Jill Allemang tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e3b8b53ef017d3c41fcb1970c 2012-09-23T15:57:59+02:00 2012-09-23T15:57:59+02:00

On a rather gray-black November day in the small town of Midland, where I suddenly lived single after seven years, in the now-even-more-ironically-(and still)-named music shop The Turntable, I heard a Christmas CD playing. A single acoustic guitar. Uncharacteristically of...

Jill Allemang tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e3b8b53ef017c315b7019970b 2012-08-19T18:33:00+02:00 2012-08-20T15:56:44+02:00

Last week Helen Gurley Brown, for three decades the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, passed away after a long, full life. Now I was no Cosmo fan. I mean, how can you take seriously a cover story about "What men want...

Jill Allemang