Imagine this. It’s hot, too hot to think. You feel irritable, even a little foggy. The sun beats down on you and you long for some shade, a cool breeze, and maybe a scoop of Karamel Sutra.

If you’ve traveled anywhere by air this spring and summer, you know flights are getting canceled left and right, and reliability has gone down the tubes.

As I drove to the airport early on the morning of June 24th, I listened to the NPR announcer tell me that Roe V. Wade had been overturned. Like most people in this country, it wasn’t a surprise but a shock. 

This past week I had the fantastic opportunity to work with a group of leaders in the senior living space.

I wrote the title of today’s blog without knowing where it would go because the inspo wagon has officially left and my assistant, George,

I’m back from a restful and rejuvenating trip to British Columbia and the Methow Valley in North Central Washington.

In graphic design, white space is a term used to keep the client from filling all the ad space with text and images. “Can we add a few more images,” they say.

This week, I had the great fortune to do some work with a team of people in Jackson, Wyoming. After helping them secure funding for a large-scale project that would serve to educate visitors on responsible recreation, we now had the task of planning the program.

It’s not you; it’s me. That may be the case when you are breaking up with a boyfriend or a girlfriend, but let's flip that when you are telling stories.

We often learn through contrast, so today, I want to talk about the opposite of story. In understanding what a story is not, we learn more about what a story is and what it can do. 

We can learn so much from the great storytellers of our time.The story starts in the teller’s imagination and finishes in the receiver’s imagination.

Warning: “This is Us” spoiler alert for Season 6, Episode 6, Our Little Island Girl Part 2, dated Feb 22, 2022

Before this month, I didn't know much about Chloe Kim until I saw her asking for snacks in a press conference shortly after winning a gold medal in the women's snowboard halfpipe.

The other morning, a friend asked me how I stay inspired and creative. We were skinning up a mountain in the backcountry of British Columbia.

In this photo, that’s me on the left at 10 years old at Rehoboth Beach with my family. Pictured also is my little sister, my uncle, and my aunt.

Many years ago, I wrote a weekly ski column for Spokane’s daily paper and for that column, I interviewed a girl who had an interesting affliction:

If you have been following this blog for a while, you'll recognize this content. It's become my Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Massacree (a spoken song played every year around Thanksgiving) or my Love Actually (the best ever Christmas movie we watch every year).

"Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you care about." - Kathleen Hanna.

Holidays always make me nostalgic and I was thinking about how things become so ingrained in us as kids that we don't even realize it because we don't know any different.

I’m on the other side of a very big week, a week that has loomed not only on my calendar but also very heavily on my mind. My book was released (YAY! And more details below), but I gave a new workshop and had some client deliverables.