Here’s what I’ve experienced over the last thirty-days on Youtube.

This was a very educational year, because failure is one of the best teachers. I had many failures this year. And no, I’m not talking about personal or moral failures. I’m talking about creative failures. There were things I wanted to do this year, and despite the effort, failed at doing.

Am I actually good at this? Or is it that I’ve travelled well, and therefore have great photos.

We finally got wedding photos twelve years late, and it almost didn’t even happen - again.

Many years ago, I went through and started digitizing photos that belonged to my grandparents so we could preserve them for future generations. As readily as cameras are for us today on our phones, the truth is that their generation didn’t take hundreds or thousands of photos every year.

I’ve been really uninspired for a while, now. In fact, I’m probably in one of my longest seasons of personal drought. I’m aware of the things that are hampering my creativity, which is honestly one of the hardest things to identify.

Amanda & I have a long history of traveling together. In the years before having children, we did roadtrips constantly. We saw many National Parks for the first time together during these years - from the Grand Canyon to Yellowstone and many others.

The following blog was one I wrote a few years ago, but I wanted to bring it home to this website rather than where it was first published. Before I jump into it, some context may be needed.

I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot. There seems to be this mindset that your success comes at the expense of others. There certainly is truth to this mindset in some industries and some circumstances in life.

Late last summer, I bought a Vanagon from a guy in Santa Cruz. I had been looking for one for several years, but hadn’t found anything that was a good fit. I was looking for something mostly mechanically sound (as I’m no mechanic), and something that was ready to be renovated.

This post is about culture. Not culture in terms of society, but culture as in the culture in which I conduct myself. Did you know that we all have cultural values we live out every day? Our decisions are guided by them. As you live them out, even your impulses become guided by them.

I use to be kind-of fat, depending on who you ask. If you asked me, yeah… I was fat.

I have been writing for most of my adult life. I use to journal…publicly. Anyone remember Xanga?

And as someone with diverse creative endeavors, I’ve leveraged everything in my abilities to travel. Let me share an example.