Eat The Beets A starting point for anyone who’s been deciding in advance. Because trying something new makes your world bigger. After I posted my last article, “Eat the Beets: Or Stay Stuck With Who You Used To Be,” something unexpected happened. Texts came in. Emails. From people I know and — this is […]
Eat the Beets Or stay stuck with who you used to be. At a formal dinner, a man in a tuxedo pushed his plate away as if it had offended him personally. “I hate beets,” he said. The dish didn’t look offensive. Quite the opposite. It was beautifully constructed — roasted golden and red beets […]
How curiosity fights the fear that keeps us stuck Several years ago I flew up to the Pacific Northwest to join my client, Mike, for a company retreat. He picked me up at the airport in a rental car, we tossed my bag in the back, and I asked the obvious question. “Where’s the retreat?” […]
Southwest Airlines ends open seating. I raise a hand. Not in mourning. I’m a traveler. I just don’t always look like one. Most days at home in San Diego, my motorcycle collects more dust than miles. But when curiosity taps me on the shoulder, I go. Ski towns. Wine country. Family scattered across time zones. […]
The ferry from Barcelona had deposited me in Sardinia four days earlier, and honestly, I was grateful just to be upright and riding. Barcelona hadn’t exactly ended on a high note. The last night—Johnny’s last night before he flew home—we’d discovered a tapas place in the Gothic Quarter where people queue for hours just to […]
This post shares my chimichurri recipe from FORKS—and a few honest thoughts about making what I love, even when the algorithm tells me I shouldn’t. I Don’t Give a Damn About the Algorithm There. I said it. The YouTube experts will tell you I’m doing it all wrong. One day I’m posting motorcycle adventures through […]
I thought I was just catching a ferry. A quick ride across the Black Sea. A little downtime. A chance to do some laundry, edit photos, sip Ukrainian wine in my cabin, and land in Georgia refreshed and ready for the next leg of the journey. But the moment I rolled into Chornomorsk, Ukraine, and […]
In a world of constant notifications and endless scroll, presence has become a radical act. We give gifts, favors, advice—but the rarest thing we offer each other is our time. In this piece, I explore what it means to truly show up—for the people we love, and even for those we barely know. Because not all time is created equal—and the best moments often ask for nothing but us.
I flew to Europe for a celebration, a moment of family triumph. I left with a deeper understanding of loss, gratitude, and what truly matters. Rome gave me everything—and then it took something irreplaceable. This is a story about memory, serendipity, and finding resilience in unexpected places.
