A Full Life Doesn’t Have to Be a Closed Life
Why is making friends in midlife so hard? Need asymmetry explains part of it—and why making room for new people matters more than we realize.
Why We Left Seattle Without Looking Back
A few years ago, I wrote that happiness isn’t geographical — and then immediately admitted I was wrong. We went 2,900 miles to find it. Here’s what happened next. Shortly after arriving in Washington In May of 2022, Jason and I packed everything we owned into a 15-foot U-Haul and a Ford F-150 towing a […]
The Ben & Jerry’s Guy
Last weekend, Jason and I made our first grocery run of the grilling season. 78 degrees. No humidity. The kind of early spring day that makes you forget you’re still technically living out of a suitcase in an Airbnb. We grabbed burger stuff — meat, cheese, buns — and then wandered over to the ice […]
Just Buy the Damn Tickets: Concerts 2 & 3
This picture says it all! Theory of a Deadman at the iconic Moore Theatre on a windy February night in downtown Seattle. We’re lovin’ it! 2024 was a year of lost opportunities for us. Usually, when that happens to people, it’s because there were “heavy” things on their minds, and that was the case for […]
Pursuing Happiness
What lengths would you go to find happiness? That’s such a deep question, I know, but stick with me as I share our journey to find the answer to this question. It began in mid-January when Jason went into the office for a series of meetings to plan the upcoming horse racing meet, and afterward, […]
On the Move … Again
When life hands you a 💩💩 storm, you can react in a number of ways. After the emotions settled from the shit-storm we were blindsided by in early January, it gave us a chance to reassess how we wanted life to be. Do we really want a job that requires you to give up every […]
We Got a Fuzzball
We finally decided to take the plunge (again) and adopt a Chesapeake Bay Retriever puppy.