Blanket forts, hide and seek, hopscotch and playing in the mud are all things I hope all kids experience. — Being bored wasn’t an option when I was a kid. My imagination, the neighborhood kids, books from the library, and being outside were all cures for boredom. Making blanket forts, playing hot lava, making boondoggle bracelets, flattening boxes and putting them on stairs and sliding into a pile of blankets…

Praying to die all while having the most amazing adventure — Have you ever prayed to die? If you’ve ever been seasick, you will know there’s a particularly intense desire to die that comes with it. I am prone to getting seasick. …

You know you’re seasick when your thoughts range from “I’m sailing!” to “Please let me die!” — While learning to sail in the middle of the Atlantic, I was able to really define and become familiar with the stages of seasickness. Based on my experience, here are the stages of seasickness and the thoughts I normally have during each stage. Stage 1: Pre-trip Confidence Woohoo! I get to go sailing! …

We will all struggle at times. Just recognizing and accepting that helps. — We are living through a pandemic. We know this. It’s incredibly rough right now for everyone. We are ALL going to have moments where we are not OK, and that is totally OK. Everyone is dealing with things the best way they know how. But guess what? We’ve never done…

We’re living through a very critical time in history, let’s make sure we don’t forget it…or repeat it. — History in the Making We are living during a period in history that when someone asks us where we were during the COVID-19 pandemic, we will remember and if we don’t write down what life is like for us, there’s a good chance we will regret it. It’s easy to forget that we have…

We are all in this coronavirus experience together; let’s do what we can to help each other out. — “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”― Fred Rogers With the coronavirus hitting pandemic status, the world seems to be in an all-time-high panic and…

A few ideas on how to find your people. — There comes a time in every single adult’s life when you have to go to extremes to make new friends. A few of the extremes I’m referring to would include: Puking your guts out while learning to sail across the Atlantic Hiking Mt. Fuji and sweating so intensely that you…

Opposite forces are needed because without one, we could never perceive the other. — The Law of Polarity The Law of Polarity states that everything in life has its own polar, equal opposite. Without one, we would not have the other. It is up to us to decide how we will perceive them and what side of this pole to experience. If we did not experience sadness, we…

How not checking bus schedules changed my life. — In March of last year, I found myself in the arctic circle in northern Norway. I had just finished a 7-day cross country skiing adventure across the frozen Finnmark Plateau where I got to sleep in the snow with strangers and be dazzled by the Northern Lights almost nightly. It…