Sorry for the silence here. I’m on the tail end of the craziest week of my life. There’s barely been enough time for packing and last visits with friends, so blogging has taken a back seat. …Until now. I’m about to drive through the night to Georgia with my sister, and then we’ll catch an … More A Day Away
It’s been a week of lasts. My last phone interview, last editorial meeting, last lunch at Nancy’s, last time putting together newsletters…with each one, the reality of what I am doing began to sink in a little more. It was an emotional, surreal week–never more so than on Tuesday, when the folks at work threw … More Oh, the Places You’ll Beau!
Happy New Year, friends. All my resolutions for 2014 are wrapped up in this one overarching goal: to walk about 5 million steps from Georgia to Maine and spend half of the year in the woods. This, hiking the Appalachian Trail, has been a dream of mine since I was about 10. It stayed mostly … More 2014
Image from sarasotamagazine.com. I have a friend who, once a week or so, sends me an ominously straightforward text, something along these lines: “10 days.” “15 days.” “25 days.” “A month!” The reverse countdown is a running tally of the amount of time since I’ve last posted here. This thing is like a pet that’s … More Happy here
My last post was about the Fourth of July. Not even two months in, and I’m already neglecting this thing. So here are some quick highlights of the past week or so…I’ll have something more substantive by the weekend, I promise hopefully. My friend Connor got married on Saturday, which was wonderful, and now wedding … More Highlights
A few years back, I was driving through a small town somewhere in New Mexico, where there was an apparently prominent real estate agent named Wendy Golightly. I wrote at the time that her signs, which were everywhere, made me really happy. Each time I saw her name I felt like it was encouraging me … More Go forth, and go lightly.
Earlier tonight I drove back from Jacksonville, where I was visiting a friend nearing the end of a battle with a brain tumor. (Sorry, I lied when I promised a light post this time.) I’ll try not to dwell on it here, except for three thoughts. 1. There was so much love in that building, … More Humans are awesome.
Sometimes Father’s Day sucks. There have been some years where it kind of sneaks by…maybe it causes a couple of quick pauses, then that’s all. Other years, it comes on like a slow tide with a crazy strong undercurrent, and you see it coming from miles away but suddenly you’re upside down and that’s all … More Father’s Day and Slowly Rising Tides.
I’m the type of person who, after deciding to start a new blog, might spend about a week thinking of potential titles, stressed that none of them seem quite perfect, before eventually getting distracted and abandoning the whole idea. So this time I decided to go with the first thing that came to mind. I … More Water Towers & Graffiti
I realized recently that it’s been almost three years since the last time I did any writing outside of work, besides random thoughts in a notebook. I love getting paid to work with words every day, even when it’s just summarizing press releases for a newsletter, but I miss the freedom and the sense of … More Blog Time Fun Time
Water Tower Graffiti 