For my birthday weekend this year, I decided to hop the Accela and take the ‘just over an hour’ train ride up to New York City for the weekend. Leading up to my departure, things were not going well at work. Frustration building, I checked out earlier trains and booked Read more
This year, I decided to do Dry January. This started in the UK by Alcohol Change UK and was designed to encourage people to sign-up to abstain from alcohol for the month of January. The idea was that over the year-end holidays, people tend to drink a lot of alcohol. Read more
As an INTJ, one of my unavoidable traits is having a plan b, and for that matter, a plan c, d, e, f and g. There’s nothing I can do about it, whenever I’m planning something, my mind immediately forms back-up plans, just in case things don’t go according to Read more
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau Winter hiking Read more
I discovered that Millennials have a truly interesting way of determining most favored child status (similar to MFN, but with children). As my kids were growing up, I enjoyed their truly different personalities and time spent with both of them. They are very different people, and I did my best Read more
As I made my plans for 2022, I decided that I would need to increase the number of National Parks I go to each year if I were going to complete the full 63 parks in the system before I die. I’m sure I have many years of hiking ahead Read more
Russian roulette is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against the head or body, and pulls the trigger. If the loaded chamber aligns with the barrel, the weapon will fire, killing or severely Read more
My first few months on the job in Pennsylvania culminated in a restructuring where I once again had to take down headcount. Like having to do health and safety for 18 months during a pandemic, this was not something I was anxious to do. Never a good thing in the Read more
Today, I went into a church for the first time in 18 months. The last time I was in a church to worship was when I attended a service in Berkeley with the Bishop of California. I don’t remember the specific celebration, but it was after Ash Wednesday and there Read more
I don’t remember when we first started coming to Duluth and regions northward towards Grand Marais in Minnesota. When I think back, I have a photo from a trip with my mom in 1987. I don’t remember why we went up, or what we did while there, but the photo Read more