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Category: Blog

  • Kid’s first lost tooth: Shepherd!

    After a few weeks of a “wiggly tooth”, Shepherd overcame some nerves and fear and let us pull his first baby tooth! “Pull” is a strong word; it was barely hanging on. Shepherd, you were very stoked when it came out and you saw it and your realized that you’d overcome your fear. That was…

  • Running/Trying Hard/Pursuing Excellence

    My focus has become excellence and trying hard through running. I’m focused on the marathon and working on it as a project for the next few years. I’m 33 and I figure that if I’m going to go for it, now is the time for the marathon. I think that after a few years I…

  • Important experiences/identities getting relegated

    Perhaps only in anticipation, or in retrospect, is this a useful way of thinking, but here it goes: Very important periods of time in one’s life will end and be thought of as not so important; not unimportant, but just that one will think, “how interesting that I thought that would be the most important…

  • Happy Independence Day!

    Read this piece in Compact Magazine from James Vaughn, a historian, at the University of Chicago and find myself quite amazed by the unique historical event that is the 250th anniversary of The United States. The Persian and Roman empires have been in the cultural psyche recently, because America has warred with both Iran and…

  • Shepherd goes to camp!

    We dropped Shepherd off at Rockmont last Sunday, and for all we know he’s having a great time! This was such a big part of my early adulthood and start to life; where I made great friends, great strides in my life’s formation, and where I met and fell in love with Sadie. So, to…

  • Neighbors helping me fix a water main leak

    “A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given…

  • Birthday: 33rd

    33! Things feel, in life right now, as if they’re coalescing into some kind of clearer notion of what I want to be doing. It’s become clear that the last few years have been a slow move towards something. That is clear because I am quite aware that four years ago, having left a job…

  • June, 2026: Way of Living

    I have some ideal outcomes for June: Three ways to try and achieve this: One of the primary things across anybody I’ve read about or come to respect who come to do something in the world, and in their own life, is that they had a particular intensity and focus. That’s what June is for.…

  • What I Definitely Don’t Know but Definitely Suspect

    Narrative vs. Molecules To say that there is much that I don’t understand about the markets and the real world would be comically overselling myself. In this way, I’m too much of a rationalist. My impression was actions is that there should be legible and tangible outcomes; Newton’s 3rd law, equal and opposite reactions. Perhaps,…

  • A Benediction Worth Remembering

    This benediction from church last Sunday, 5/24/2026, struck me and entered right into the heart of it all for me. Life is short, And we do not have much time to gladden the hearts  of those who make the journey with us. So… be swift to love, and make haste to be kind. And may…