A look into my awesome life
Katie and I met at college back in 2006, and after a few years and a few moves, got married and started a family. We left the snow of the midwest for the desert of the southwest. These posts tell a meandering story through life together, the lessons and the wins, the small adventures that are more important than the end results.
everything in between
- LatestA New Hobby: Packrafting!There was a bit of an existential crisis in the spring of 2022. While, on one hand, I had tackled a few of my biggest adventures in the Grand Canyon, and my kids had also done some awesome hikes in the Superstitions, I was debating if I was …
- Four YearsFour years. It’s been four years since I last posted on this blog. Four years since I shared a hiking …
- Another Year of the PandemicIt’s been a long, long, long, l-o-n-g few years. Mitigating the pandemic, buying a house, handling work …
- Social Contracts Under StressA few weeks ago, during normal working hours, something interested happened in one of our team’s Slack …
- Managing the PandemicThe last year has lasted an eternity. COVID-19 has impacted, well, the entire world, and my family …
- A Few Years of Working OutWorking out has, over the last few years, become an integral part of my day. Long ago I assumed that running …
- Mountain Rescue, Recruit ReduxFor the last two years I’ve been working on a little side-hustle. A side-hustle that took up more than …
- 2019, A New YearMy free time during 2018 was overtaken by Mountain Rescue and family. Which isn’t all that bad, nor was …
- 500 PostsA month ago my blog hit a big milestone: 500 posts. It’s taken nine years to accumulate this many words, …