I’ve recently been working on a new venture/offering (which will be announced here when it’s ready). How it all began is this: I told my Success Team about an eBook I’m writing. They were excited, I got even more excited. This one ebook sparked more ideas and I started thinking about maybe starting up a [...]
Browsing Renaissance Souls™
New Venture Supported by “the Universe” or Something Like That
Your Own Endowment to the Arts (or whatever you *really* want to do)
As scanners/renaissance souls/eclectics we sometimes fall into the trap that we absolutely must incorporate everything we love doing into a money making pursuit. However, sometimes making yourself write blog articles for money when you really love writing novels and short stories may drain your writing energy. You may want to consider the “Good Enough Job.” [...]
Friday Reading List
Hope everyone had a great week! Here are a few things that piqued my interest on the internets this week:
Don’t try to dodge the recession with Grad School: Some of us scanners/eclectics/renaissance souls already know this – but there are those of us (count me in as one of ‘em) that think Grad School is [...]
Welcome to the Alternating Current!
This is my blog. Well, actually it’s YOUR blog too since one of my aims is to build a community of Renaissance Souls and Scanners and other people who are wired a tad bit differently than those who can pursue one career all their lives.
The world is changing and Renaissance Souls, Scanners and Slashers are [...]
Recommended Book: Renaissance Souls
This is the book that started it all. I came across Margaret Lobenstine’s website over a year ago and took this quiz. I checked off “Yes” on just about every single question. It clicked. The reason for my boredom, my inability to stick to one thing, and not only my interest but my ability in [...]
















I am Alexia - the author of this blog. I’ve known that I’ve been a little different than most since I was a little girl. I barely tested into the gifted program (by not being able to draw a kite, as I recall…) yet excelled in just about everything I did as I grew up. I truly didn’t know how to answer “what do you want to be when you grow up”...