Family
Mom & Dad & Christmas Week
My parents came down to experience a Floridian Christmas in our little corner of the world for the first time. Lights. Ocean. Heat. And a bunch of walking. No snow. At one point, we spent the day in Orlando, meeting…
Lucy, Our Goffin Cockatoo
Every day when I get home, before I’ve even put my bag down, Lucy runs out of her cage to snuggle. This is the best proof that even birds want love.
After a Long Day
That feeling when you’ve worked a long day, drive home through the rain, see her car in the garage, a light on in the bedroom, and you smile because you know you’re about to kiss a beautiful woman and tell…
Thirty Years
There’s something to be said for showing up early. It means you’re anxious to get started. I’d say the same was true when my little brother showed up thirty years ago, three and a half months premature, hooked up to…
Love Traveling with this Girl
She doesn’t like being on camera, but sometimes Melissa gives me permission to share her happiest moments. For most of our marriage, or at least the last half of it, since the midnight of social media, we’ve had a spoken…
The Birthday Trifecta
Today is Melissa’s birthday. She’ll never announce it and she’ll never ask for recognition. But that’s part of what makes her perfect. She can be beautiful, brilliant, and beloved without ever seeking praise. The world would be more gentle, more…
To Call More Often
Last month, the day we took this photo, my father and I spent two hours unexpectedly hashing out forty plus years of complicated and often unspoken family history. Things we hadn’t really ever talked about. We cried over regrets. We…
After the Fires
For all that my west coast friends endured last year, through the endless, relentless fires that ravaged towns and forests from California to Washington, it’s worth noting all the new and continuing life that surrounds the black trees and the…
After 21 Years Apart
When you move around a lot as a kid, you don’t build a lot of lasting relationships. From 1995-1999, when I was living in Oregon, Joel Williams was the closest thing I had to a best friend, someone to hold…
Celebrating 19 Years @ Lake Tahoe
There’s no question that life itself has been and continues to be complicated, for us and for everyone, for so many reasons. But love, for us, has never been like life. It’s never been complicated. It’s never been a challenge…
