Not There Yet
Eclectic essays podcasted from the third decade of the 21st century.
Displaying 9 items of Not There Yet with the tag "life lessons".
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RV-6
May 1st, 2019 | 28 mins 55 secs
Life Lessons, Memories, Storytelling, aviation, reflections
A labour of love — and hate — 23 years in the making.
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The Return of Tiger Woods
April 17th, 2019 | 21 mins 38 secs
Life Lessons, Sports, culture, golf, tiger woods
Thankfully, things didn’t turn out the way many expected.
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The Third Third
April 30th, 2018 | 16 mins
Life Lessons, career advice, nonfiction, retirement
A conversation over breakfast about long-lived parents triggers some thoughts on a new life plan.
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Listening to Diana Krall in Nizhnevartovsk
January 20th, 2018 | 14 mins 8 secs
Life Lessons, Russia, homesickness, podcast, travel
In this episode, host Terence C. Gannon recounts his time as an accidental tourist in Western Siberia in 1998. It was a time and a place so far away, and so strange, he learned something about what connects us all to home.
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Mexico City, 1969
December 21st, 2017 | 16 mins
Family, Life Lessons, Memories, roadtrip, travel
As my parents enter their late eighties and approach life with delicacy and deliberation, I am reminded of a time when they seemingly threw caution and good sense to the wind and took their young family on an epic road trip. They knew what they were doing: creating a vivid past for a then distant future.
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Rosetta Stone
November 9th, 2017 | 19 mins 58 secs
Life Lessons, Memories, careers, language, travel
A journey from ancient Egypt to modern day as an exploration of language, understanding and a better way for us to communicate with each other.
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The Tyranny of a Happy Accident
October 26th, 2017 | 9 mins 29 secs
Life Lessons, career advice, career change, careers, self improvement
You would think that success early in a career is a gift and a stepping stone to the big time. For me, however, it turned out to be a curse. Reflections on a career, candidly, that was not all it should have been.
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The Best Answer Ever
August 10th, 2017 | 6 mins 50 secs
Family, Life Lessons, Memories, careers
All of us are searching for that career which provides happiness, fulfillment and will keep a roof over our head. Turns out that it's actually not that hard, if you keep one essential idea in mind at all times.
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The Unbearable Heartbreak of Coming Close
June 15th, 2017 | 7 mins 34 secs
Cars, Le Mans, Life Lessons, Racing, Sports, basketball, podcast
What can you learn about life from a car race and a basketball game? Turns out quite a bit.