tales of a female nomad by rita golden gelman

Rita would like two people in every high school to be able to win a 'Gap Year Scholarship' just to demonstrate the power of the idea to young people everywhere. Her plan is to partner with a young man who is creating an American Gap Year Association and beginning an accreditation process for American gap year programs. She has started an organization called Let's Get Global. She urges grandparents to begin a $500 a year gap year fund for their grandchildren so that kids have a year to mature before starting the bigger commitments of study, work, or job while using that time to understand the greater wider world better. They are not ready to experience any of these yet with full maturity. She said high school students have three choices: university, work, or military after high school. Rita believes Americans would approach the world with more understanding if each high school senior took a gap year between high school and college to see the world. Gentle readers, do you know of students that would benefit from hearing Rita's inspiring tales? Why not suggest her as a speaker to your favorite lecture series committee? She always asks the university to set up a talk at the local high school as well. She is frequently invited to speak at universities about her global travels. She wants to go home to spend the next two years in America working on her legacy. Rita is interested in changing that and has a plan to do so.Īt age 75, Rita is starting to feel her age for the first time. The Netherlands and Isreal come to mind, for me, as two countries where citizens have enough time off, a lack of fear, and the willingness to hit the open road. There are cultures where overseas travel is really celebrated.

~ Rita Golden Gelman's quote on Starbuck's tall cup #31 Without serendipity, there are no surprises. Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. By then her children were grown. She sold everything, stuck the house money into savings without spending a dime of it, and has spent the last 27 years living without a permanent home and traveling the world. Her marriage eventually fell apart and she decided to put the anthropology she had been studying in a PhD program at UCLA into practice by seeing the world. Eventually, her husband's work took the family out to the film industry in Los Angeles in California. Rita didn't identify with any of it. She lived with them in Manhattan and Greenwich Village, New York as her children grew up. She was married - a dutiful wife of an interesting man and mother to accomplished children. The blogging universe exposes us to all kinds of people living lives different than our own these days, but Rita Golden Gelman was a true pioneer in choosing a different path than the American dream of a house with the picket fence.

Rita Golden Gelman is the author of the acclaimed book 'Tales of a Female Nomad.' I read her book as part of my vagabonding journey these last four years and was absolutely riveted.

Tales of a female nomad by rita golden gelman