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How Do You Want To Feel?
It’s that time of year when we are inundated with the topic of setting goals, which means we have to remember the goals we set last year. I have a hard time remembering exactly what my goals were much less if I achieved them. I know that there are all kinds of systems...
Hobbiton
You might have guessed by now I am a huge LOTRs and The Hobbit nerd. Well, I'm just a big nerd in general! I arrived in Auckland yesterday, but our flight to Tauranga was fogged out so they eventually put us on a bus and drove us 3 hours to the hotel. I am really glad...
Conventions
*From Pleasure Thresholds- Patricia Tallman's Babylon 5 Memoir, 2011 A word about conventions. The actors who are on the shows that get promoted at cons are a very lucky bunch. You could be on a hit series like ER , but those shows don’t have fans...
Top 5 reasons you should do a Quest Retreat
Adventures for Nerds Group tours -- done right! I know I know. The idea of a “group tour” makes you think of old people in weird sun protective hats shuffling from one tourist trap to another. Or perhaps it brings up decidedly unglamorous mental pictures of crowded...
On being a Nerd
I am a nerd. I am very very proud of being a part of such a vibrant, exciting, intelligent, awesome community of lovely, funny people. I have had the great good fortune of traveling all over the world signing autographs, speaking in large halls and tiny pubs, meeting...
Luck and Leaps
by Patricia Tallman I’m in tears. I leave for Africa in two days. I cannot believe this is my life. I have been asking my higher power to help me to find my way to a point like this. A place where I am overcome with gratitude that my life is the adventure of my...
Accessing the Power of Gratitude
by Patricia Tallman I just wanted to crawl into a hole. If he said one more thing I was going to snap. Why can’t my son just do the one thing I asked him? I feel like such a bitch. Everything is so freaking hard. I realized I was back in that scary miserable place of...
The Springtime Adventures of Pat and Claudia
This spring I am doing some epic journeying. Starting in Paris, on to London, then up to Edinburgh before heading home to Los Angeles. In May I will be in South Africa for the first time! At the end of the week, I'll be aboard a flight to Paris with my dear friend...
Welcome to Quest Retreats!
Welcome fellow adventurous Nerds! I am thrilled to be able to live this life of action, adventure, friendship and freedom! I look forward to you joining me on this Quest. I am interested in building the best life, the most meaningful and joy filled life I possibly...
