Joy Adventuring

And while Summer, Fall, and Spring have captured our hearts for various reasons, Winter stands alone as the absolute best time to visit our town. Perhaps it’s 15 years of living in the dreary Seattle area. Perhaps it’s that feeling of being wrapped in all the coziness. Perhaps it’s just the fluffy stuff and all the cool things you can do in it. Or maybe it’s watching our puppies bound through it with joy. It’s probably all these things.

This time, the statement from my wife – “You need to go to the ER” – did not come in the form of a question nor with a hint of uncertainty. That’s when I knew that my reflexive “But…” had no chance of escaping my mouth. In retrospect, it was thrown off course somewhere around the underappreciated organ known as the pancreas.

There is nothing special about my taste buds. I have – I don’t know, a normal amount of them? When I’m swirling wine around my mouth to determine what hints and aromas exist, I invariably taste chocolate, strawberries, and/or butter […]

And you know the one word that comes to mind when I think of this city: panache.  So many countries and so many people are just trying to get by; New York City not only gets by, it does it with flair.

“There are moments, there are times, when there isn’t a grey zone, when there isn’t really room for nuance, where, if you’re not resisting, you’re partaking.” – Timothy Snyder, professor of European history at Yale University I wrote the majority […]