If you told me five, six, seven, ten years ago that I would devote months of my life to hiking I would have called BS. For the first 31 years of my life I rarely ever hiked. On paper it should have been a no brainer but for whatever reason it wasn’t. As a kid…

It’s not really my cup of tea (neither is… tea…). That is unless I’m singing karaoke in front of all my coworkers. There’s just something about that microphone and my desire to be a lead singer despite no musical talent. This is not about karaoke, however. I am the center of attention during my Mardi…

Today is the first day of my short Mardi Himal trek in Nepal. The warm up hike I chose for Everest Base Camp. Today also would have been my eleventh anniversary at my former job had I not decided to go on this journey I’ve been on. I’m 7500 miles and a world away from…

I simply cannot sleep on planes. I’m very jealous of those who can. It’s like a cheat code. Time travel. The rare people like the woman next to me on my flight home from Peru who one minute into her nature documentary fell asleep with her mouth wide open and slept like that the entire…

A tried and true well-worn path that many travelers have taken… Creating a writing habit has been difficult to say the least… James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, is the modern guru on habit forming. He has a few suggestions, which I’ve so far ignored on how to form a new habit. He summarizes five…

Someone recently told me “The grass is brown everywhere.” A play on the “grass is always greener” saying. I kind of liked it, but it’s a tad pessimistic. I’d prefer amending it to a slightly less definitive “the grass has brown spots everywhere, but it’s still mostly green.” The metaphorical grass of someone else’s relationships,…