I am a consistently slow runner. I’ve made peace with this - I don’t mind being at the back of a pack of runners, running solo, in my...

Back in January, I booked an October weekend at the Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina. At the time I made the...

I haven’t written in a long while. Not because there’s nothing to say but because I’ve been busy trying things out in Richmond and...

I generously shared my cold with Andrea at the beginning of vacation. A purely tactical move that forces us both to take it easy....

On Wednesday of this week, I end the day sneezing and with a sore throat. On Thursday, I have a cold. By Friday, I sign off of work...

June was a brutiful month. It was as if we had many plates spinning high atop long poles and we focus on one spinning plate only to dash...

Being dumb can be costly. I know this from my own experience. I’m sharing it with you so maybe you can be smarter. Although - I think...

We’ve reached the point in the move where my body aches, I cannot store one more detail in my head and when the buyers make a seemingly...

If it feels like we just moved, it’s because we did. And yet we’re preparing to do it one more time. Moving is exhausting and expensive....

In October of 2019, Andrea and I announced that we would be moving to Virginia. A friend of mine, whom I have yet to meet in real life as...

On Monday of this week, I texted my mom and asked when we’d moved to Centralia, Illinois. Was it 1979? 1980? She called me and we agreed...

On Saturday, I felt an annoying bump on my stomach and assumed it was a zit. Then it got bigger and bigger. So on Sunday, I went to...

I’ve written a surprising amount of blog posts in airports or on planes. I think it’s because I’m usually early - like I was on Tuesday...

I traveled to Illinois to spend some time with my mom. I thought April would be a good time to visit but it was cold, windy, and cloudy...

This morning I woke up at 3 AM to catch an early flight out of Charlottesville, VA. I couldn’t fall asleep last night because I’d...

“No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never...

Recently, I flew to Boston. It was a gray day so I didn’t bother to lift the window shade until the plane was touching down. When I...

The Virginia forecast, for where I live and for Richmond, call for snow this Sunday. Not a lot by my assessment but locals predict the...

I’ve been slowly making strides in exercising. 2020 was a struggle. Right now, I’m using the incline on my treadmill to train to walk...

Last Wednesday evening, I was flying to Charlottesville via Washington Dulles – a 20-minute flight. Dulles was crowded – pre-COVID...