The Nashville area is pretty cool, I have to admit. A melting pot of creativity and difference makers at nearly every turn. Everyone knows someone who knows someone – perhaps unknowingly sitting next to someone who has two dozen published books, produces music for all the big names, or started some big conference or group […]
New places – same old struggles
Over the last several years our family has done a lot, no doubt. It is not uncommon for clients to ask ‘Where are you these days,’ and rightfully so. We’ve gone from owning out dream property in Central Oregon, a place I never thought we would leave, to Hawaii, driving an RV around the United […]
Thinking back on the Molokai Hoe 2018
So I had a post I was writing, trying to finish and sitting in draft literally since September 2018 as myself and crew of novice paddlers were prepping for the famed Molokai Hoe; a 40+ mile outrigger canoe race crossing the Ka’iwi Channel. It’s considered the World Championship of outrigger canoe racing and draws over […]
If my faith is a cop-out, so is yours
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ~ Richard Dawkins A friend of mine recently used this quote with a magnificent photo of him swimming with sharks. I read the quote […]
Coping with lasting effects of Lyme
Well, it’s back. After nearly a year of relatively pain free day’s and nights for Danielle her episodes of extreme pain to the point of loosing consciousness is back. It was at this point last year, right around Christmas that these episodes became nightly, like clockwork, and brought us to the hard decision of up […]