Guest Post: How Right Angles Convinced Me to Take a Social Media Break
Everything became clear to me last Tuesday about what I had to do—something I hadn’t done in over a decade, something harder for me than giving up my half-and-half coffee…
These posts were written for my old blog and are still well worth a read.
Guest Post: The Scent of Adventure (pt4)
By Day 5 on the West Highland Way, I had developed a theory: Scotland doesn’t have “weather.” It has rain pairings. There’s rain and wind, rain and fog, rain and…
Guest Post: We Thought the Rain Was Bad. Then Came the Midges.
After yesterday’s wind and rain, on day four of my hike Scotland reached deeper into its bag of weather-based punishments—and hurled at us some sideways wind and mist that somehow…
Hiking the West Highland Way Requires a Pronunciation Guide and Cow Diplomacy
On Day 1 of our hike, we hopped off the bus at 6:30 a.m., strolled past the Milngavie Welcome Sign (Town Motto: “You're definitely saying it wrong”), and began the…
Glasgow: Where English Goes to Get Mugged
There are many ways to feel disoriented in a foreign country: the jet lag, the currency, the alarming number of sheep. But nothing scrambles your brain quite like arriving in…
How to Strengthen Your Corporate Communication Using the Funny Muscle Method
Let’s face it: most corporate communication has the emotional range of a spreadsheet. It’s jargon-laced, over-edited, and about as memorable as the fifth bullet point in a PowerPoint presentation about…
Rattlin’ Brain Fog: A Cautionary Tale in Malt Vinegar
We landed in Glasgow full of optimism, jet lag, and pub-fueled patriotism. Within 24 hours, we were seated in a rustic tavern listening to live Celtic folk music, which—if you’ve…
🐺 “You Gonna Pay What You Owe”: When Guilt Wakes Up with Claws
Sometimes, horror doesn’t come from a haunted house or a demon in the walls. Sometimes it comes from a joke that went too far—and won’t stay buried. Revenge of the…
GUEST: When Logs Attack – Becoming a Wilderness Sawyer
When Logs Attack... Becoming a Wilderness Sawyer Is 40% Physics, 60% ComedyWe were standing in a circle amongst tall Colorado pine trees, all of us wearing hard hats, long sleeves,…
GUEST: March Madness and Lost Human Connection
As I walked into the University of New Mexico’s basketball area, The Pit, I noticed something was deeply, cosmically wrong.The Pit has a unique sunken design that makes you walk…
GUEST ARTICLE: Climbing the Ice (Ice Baby)
After ten minutes of heroic axe swinging, toe kicking, shivering, and aggressively not looking down, I was certain I was near the top of the 50-foot ice wall I’d been…
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GUEST: Find your Best Self on the Trail in 2025
“You look like an experienced hiker, how far are you hiking?” one group asked as I made my way up the Colorado Trail. “Another 10 miles today,” I say, “but I’ve…
Ten Ways the Million Words Challenge Made Me a Better Writer
“It takes 10,000 hours of intensive practice to achieve mastery of complex skills and materials.” Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers Tweet "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." Photographer Henri…
My Dentist First Got Me High
If I had to thank someone for my ongoing quest to get high, it’d probably be my dentist in 1975.Inclined and bibbed with a mouth full of cotton, I remember squinting at the…
Confession: I Joined the HairClub For a Week
First time I noticed I was losing my hair happened two years after I graduated high school. It was the spring of 1985. The Terminator with Arnold Schwarzenegger was still a big…
My Two Nights in Jail (A true story)
My eyes cracked open fifteen feet below an industrial ceiling made of cement pockmarked with unfinished air pockets; I had no idea where I was. The front lobe of my…
Scam Alert!!!
“Hi Sophina, I need some help. My balance just dropped to -$1,450.” ”You are so lucky!” “I am?” Sophina was my new online supervisor. For hours she had trained me…
The Way I Want to Die, Since I Must
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. - Henry David Thoreau Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long…
Why “I’m not a racist” is NOT enough
Why “I’m not a racist” is NOT enough Watched a grown man’s life get inexplicably snuffed by a racist cop’s knee as his chickenshit accomplices joined in. All four ignored…