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Year in Review: 2023
I hope this letter finds you and yours off to a beautiful start in 2024. Sitting down to write most of this annual letter is one of my favorite holiday season activities, usually done in the weeks leading up to Christmas. We had a flurry of unexpected activity at the end of the year, drawing…
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5+ months on the Pacific Crest Trail
I’m busy trying to get things together to finally get my annual New Year’s letter finished, but I thought I would share a brief update on how my 2023 hike on the Pacific Crest Trail went. Also, I’m happy to publicly share the creative projects that came out of this experience: the writing I did…
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Off to the Pacific Crest Trail
The stars have finally aligned and I’ll be attempting a thru-hike of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail this year. I’m hoping to write some extensive posts about the journey upon my return, but in the interim you can find some lightweight updates from the trail on my Substack. As these will be posted from the…
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Year in Review: 2021
I hope this finds you and yours healthy and happy after another holiday season. The most notable change from last year happened to be a change of address. If I was going to own cats that could end up living for two decades, I might as well double down on life commitments: Shawn and I…
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Year(s) in Review: 2019 & 2020
I failed to finish my annual letter last year because, well, I didn’t know how to write about something painful, but something that felt too important to simply leave out. How ironic given how 2020 turned out, huh? Just the “save the date “s on my fridge alone seem to share the painful truth that…
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Antarctica Marathon
I told myself that the only way I could take the Monday after my trip off was if I did the write-up that I wish existed for me before I embarked on this trip. This fulfills that promise. The best way to break it down is to go through the typical stages of a race…