As we pack to go to Japan, the first thing that happens is that I think of a bunch of things that will make the trip go better, and then Will negates all most of them, saying we don’t need them. Well, yes, technically that’s true and we could be CAMPING instead and making fire [...]

I’m fulfilling a lifelong dream this weekend of going to Japan. Actually, it might be longer than a lifelong dream — I think I was Japanese in a past life ;-) But seriously, this is a trip of a lifetime that involves lots of soaking in hot tubs and hot springs in rural Japan, rides [...]

There are a few things that we sometimes have to learn the hard way, a few things that we think are super important to pass on, and a few things that simply make life easier. I left out the obvious ones, like don’t max out your credit cards, and write thank-you notes and yes, you’re [...]

I have a suspicion that there is little that humbles you more than to get edited. Remember when you were in school and you’d get your paper back (when things were actually written on paper) and it would be covered in corrections, probably in red? So now things have progressed — you’re writing something about [...]

We’re such predictable beings. We go along, hum-drum, during our day, and we know how things are going to go — how the traffic will be, how the people in our life will be, what we’re having for dinner. And then something bizarre happens and you realize that maybe, just maybe, you don’t know jack. [...]