A King's Life

We’re leaving Belize. We’d like to stay a little longer, but the timing is working out this way. As much as I’ve given San Pedro a hard time, we’ve enjoyed it a thousand fold times more. We love it here and knowing that we will be leaving in one, short little week we’re feeling a [...]

As Oprah once said, “There is no such thing as luck.  Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.” And we truly believe this statement. We make luck happen. We also believe that things happen for a reason, even though we may not know what that reason is right away. We get lots of comments from people [...]

I thought I was going to be alone all week with the kids. Mr. King had to go back to Costa Rica to firm up some business and banking matters and I was going to be a single mom. I was planning on taking the full week off from work, an increasingly frequent behavior of [...]

Today, February 17th is a holiday you may have never heard of: National Random Acts of Kindess Day. This day is celebrated on Feb 17th in the United States and September 1 in New Zealand by doing something kind to a friend or stranger for no reason at all. My random gift of kindness to [...]

It is a well known fact that all of us have… too much stuff.  In fact, we own so much stuff, there are multi-billion dollar industries created to organize and store all our stuff.  We have so much stuff it won’t fit into our 3,000 sq ft houses and we have to store it off-site in [...]

Today, I woke up and realized I re-defined my American Dream. No longer are we ‘stereotypical’ Americans working to pay off our debt, to fund a bigger house and nicer car.  In fact, we have left it all behind.  One and a half years ago, we sold most of our possessions, stored the rest and [...]