When my friend said, “Hey! I got this brand new composter out back – wanna see it?” I said no, mostly because it was 35 degrees outside and I was uninterested in leaving her couch. When I did finally get off my butt because we were leaving, I said, Sure, let’s see this composter and [...]

People often ask how I ended up in my profession, since it doesn’t seem to follow the standard path. Not that nowadays there IS a standard path, but when I started in this field, it was particularly different. It all started when I was little and my Dad would do like 5 minutes of massage [...]

Will and I went to a wine-tasting tonight at a large chain store that does this big promotion every 2nd Tuesday of the month – $10 for a Riedel wine glass, free food, and 10 stations of wine tasting, 2 wines per station. It’s a deal, and very fun, and we love going. We were [...]

3 years ago, I agreed in the most blind, throwing-all-sense-to-the-winds kind of way, to be on an adventure racing team. Not for a race like a 2-3 hour one, or even a 12 or 24 hour one – no, we agreed to a 72-hour one. 3 full days. I had zero experience at adventure racing, [...]

You mean, besides the reason that everyone else has one, and everybody who knows me knows how much I want to follow along like a lemming? Ha ha. No, I’m writing this for a couple of reasons – one is that I actually love writing and I’ve had enough people tell me that I should [...]