Going Alone

Yesterday, our family said goodbye to Los Angeles in the same way that we said hello to this great city ten years ago. We began our day...

I simply adore becoming old. Every decade of my life has been an improvement on the decade before. Life really is like climbing a...

Today is a big day for me. It’s huge, in fact. By some measure (watch the video to learn how) my career ends today. If my working life...

I listened to a podcast (link in comments) yesterday, by a thirty-something year old American man living in Shizuoka Japan, a young...

It’s 5:00 AM in California and 9:00 PM tomorrow in Japan, and I’m texting now with my daughter in Kyoto, reading about her impressions of...

Yesterday was a huge day for us. Yumiko told her boss that she’s leaving—in ten months, but that’ll go fast. Yumiko has a key role where...

In his novel, Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Henry Dana Jr. writes about his 1836, mid-winter experience of rounding Cape Horn in the...

My daughter is talking (texting) at me from Japan this morning. She’s planning her time and experiences there after her Tokyo internship...

Today feels like waking up upon a great mountain. The clean, cold air up here is bracing. And the aching muscles of the climb to get here...

It’s my final day of work before vacation. This day feels much more final than it seemingly is—like I’m saying goodbye to the teams at...

We’re past the company holiday party, which always feels to me like rounding a corner into the new year. Since I know I’m leaving the...