I feel bad for people who don’t adventure outside. They will never know the unique joy of Epic. In the old days it would be long poems or songs, narrating the great deeds of heroes. These days, it’s social media and the stories we tell the like-minded to get a “cool” and the rest to […]
Birthdays are hard as a grown up. The joy has gone out of growing older. I’ve got wrinkles and body aches and a job and a mortgage and a car payment and everyone tells you when you’re a kid that it isn’t better to be an adult but you don’t believe it until it happens. What […]
I sometimes try and see the world through my niece’s eyes. And it’s terrifying. I know I’m lucky to have grown up in a time before social media, before we walked around with small computers in our pockets that controlled our minds and tracked everything we do. I know I couldn’t live without technology because I’m […]
Sometimes I feel like I spent years waiting on someone or something. These days I try not to. These days if I want to do a thing, I just do it, with or without someone to do it with. This is hard. I know we are pack animals at heart, but I think about all […]
Well you never know how far from home you’re feelingUntil you watch the shadows cross the ceilingWell I don’t know but I can see it snowingIn your car the windows are wide open Come on homeCome on homeNo you don’t have to be aloneJust come on home I’m not sure where home is anymore. I […]
Sometimes happiness feels like a broken heart. It’s like that sad song you love, it’s like crying when you’re happy, laughing at a funeral. Joy and sorrow are so close, and inescapably human. I was so happy these days in Indian Lake that it broke my heart. I kept asking myself what we did to […]
Religious folk say suffering is good for the soul. I don’t know about that but I know that the suffering you take on yourself is good for the mind. Sometimes it’s called type 2 fun. Sometimes it’s like this: life is hard and so you make yourself suffer on purpose so the hard things don’t […]
I didn’t like Myrtle Beach, even in the off-season. I can’t imagine what it would be like if there were crowds. We had a nice lunch at Bubba’s Love Shak and Myrtle Beach State Park (where we stayed) is honestly quite nice and beautiful. I ran from our campsite down to the pier in the […]
I fell in love with the outer banks when I came for a wedding in 2017. That time I watched dolphins swim and shooting stars and spent hours walking the beach looking at shells. This time we had flooding, torrential rain and wind, and it was like a ghost town. No restaurants open, nothing to […]
Virginia Beach! We got our day of warm weather. We got in our first fight on the road. On my birthday *eye roll that begs for patience*. We brought Chief for his first sight (and taste) of the ocean. If you want to do what I did:I recommend going in the off season. The only […]
