December, 2009

The (500) Days of Summer Park

url=’http://boumanblog.com/2009/12/30/the-500-days-of-summer-park/’;In September I wrote a brief review of the movie (500) Days of Summer.  I was (and still am) a fan of the movie, no matter how sad some moments are.  In several parts of the movie, including one of the final, most telling scenes, Summer and Tom share a park bench overlooking downtown Los [...]


Do I Have Entrepreneurial Courage?

url=’http://boumanblog.com/2009/12/27/do-i-have-entrepreneurial-courage/’;“The longer I put off starting my own business, the longer it can remain a dream.  It’s not something I screwed up.  It’s like I’m giving up before I started.” -Fictional TV Character Do I have what it takes?  It’s a question that I ask myself more and more these days.  In my bucket list [...]


Bucket List: 2010

url=’http://boumanblog.com/2009/12/21/bucket-list-2010/’;Like I promised, here is my bucket list for 2010.  This year, I thought long and hard about these goals.  I broke it down to personal, professional, and task related. Personal: -Date more.  While I dated in 2009, I found myself hung up on several girls who just wanted to be friends.  This occupied too [...]


Reviewing My Yearly Bucket List

url=’http://boumanblog.com/2009/12/20/reviewing-my-yearly-bucket-list/’;Last December I created a list of things that I wanted to do for 2009.  Let’s take a look and see how I did. December 31, 2008 – Blog 3x a week (I think for  a month or so I did, but this blog took a nose dive this year) – Launch a new blog [...]


Square Peg in a Round Hole

url=’http://boumanblog.com/2009/12/14/square-peg-in-a-round-hole/’;Do you like the idea of things but in reality they’re not a great fit for you?  But you want that wonderful vision  you have in your head to work out so you keep persisting, hoping it will work out.  You don’t want to be wrong and realize you wasted so much time on this [...]


Baby Aya Meets Uncle Jesse

url=’http://boumanblog.com/2009/12/05/baby-aya-meets-uncle-jesse/’;This past Thanksgiving weekend, I finally got to meet my first new born niece, Aya Shireen Lawson.  It was a  moment I had been looking forward to since October 14 when I got a call from my mother saying my sister Daisy had her child. The moment I saw Aya’s photos I knew I would [...]