Social Distancing; A Phrase Fit for This Cultural Moment

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time.  It represents so many great memories with each of the people in it, most of whom were part of my crew, the E.B.C.  We were close, like really close, so close it seemed that nothing would ever get in between us.  But life has a …

A Leap of Faith

If your Instagram feed is anything like mine, it has been flooded with images of Lower Lewis Falls the past few summers. If it hasn't then you either follow a wildly different set of hashtags than I do, or you simply don't live in Washington State. This impressive waterfall might be one of the most …

Turning 1 at 38

One year ago I was sitting on my hotel bed in Las Vegas, hopelessly exhausted.  It was an exhaustion the likes of which I had never experienced before, permeating every fiber of my being.  There was an obvious physical exhaustion, the result of the prior evening’s revelry which had inevitably deteriorated into debauchery once the …

Life Lessons from Moana

The most important thing I learned in 2017 can best be summarized in a song lyric from the movie Moana. Yes, you read that correctly.