Time to get wiser

Explorations of Joy

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Tarja Joy
  • Contact
  • Coaching/mentoring/listening
Search

Month: June 2017

Naively asking for a company car

June 29, 2017May 6, 2020 / tarjajoy / 1 Comment

I was envious of the five men with whom I shared the anonymous landscape office at the Volvo car dealership in Helsinki in August 1981. They all drove fancy four door company cars. I did not have any car. That was typical for all new graduates in Finland. Cars were expensive. The good public transportation system was … Continue reading Naively asking for a company car

Movie captain promoting Minimalism

June 23, 2017June 23, 2017 / tarjajoy / 2 Comments

Three years ago I had an opportunity to spend a couple of months in Scottsdale, Arizona. It is a posh place with many architect-designed homes, elegant hotels and exclusive shopping malls. Coming from modest Denmark, the number of well dressed, mainly middle-aged and older women with perfect make-up and hairdos attracted my attention. Soon the … Continue reading Movie captain promoting Minimalism

Legacy of poverty and corruption

June 16, 2017 / tarjajoy / Leave a comment

What hits me hardest when travelling in Central and South American countries is how children are treated, or maybe a better word would be - ignored. Their position is even worse than that of women in some countries. Just having returned to the US from Guatemala, the images and facts related to that country are vividly on … Continue reading Legacy of poverty and corruption

Key to happiness

June 7, 2017 / tarjajoy / 1 Comment

One of my worst fears when travelling alone is that I would get sick and not be able to take care of myself. Now it has happened. However careful I have been with what I eat or drink, somehow I have ingested something that started a war in my digestive system tonight. Maybe it was the … Continue reading Key to happiness

Archive

  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • January 2020
  • May 2019
  • March 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017

Navigation

  • Home
  • About Tarja Joy
  • Contact
  • Coaching/mentoring/listening
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel