By Christine Gilbert

I intended to write a review today of my friend Farnoosh Brock’s Fear-Crushing Travel Guide, but as I started reading it, I was brought me back to a time, three years ago, when I was tied up in knots over whether or not to quit my job and the relative wisdom of starting a career over again, in my early 30s, as a writer and photographer. At the time, I was writing here, at Almostfearless.com but I wasn’t quite brave enough to really go there.

You see, I was sick of my job, but I was also sick of my life. That’s one of the things you never hear people talk about — it’s safer to admit that the 9-5 is a grind or that you wish you had more free time, but admitting, publicly to the world, that you hate your life and just want to get away from it —... More...