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What Donating a Kidney Feels Like
What does it feel like to donate a kidney to someone you love? For me the entire experience boils down to one word: magic. It’s taken a long time to write about this experience. 12 years have passed, to be exact. The attention I inevitably receive when telling people about it always felt wrong. People […]
My Greatest Lesson From The Wilderness First Responder Course
[x_pullquote cite=”Paulo Coelho” type=”left”]“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.” [/x_pullquote]This week I took (and passed!) the Wilderness […]
4 New Years Resolutions as a Freelancer
Setting your own schedule, being your own boss, working remotely in your underwear… these are all perks to the freelancing for those who want it. Yet along the way the romanticized ideals that seem so appealing fall to the day to day struggles of trying to do everything on your own. For some this can […]
7 Incorrect #ADULTING Myths That You Need To Unlearn
Ah, Adulting. The new verb that has become somewhat of a joke when we fall short. These days there are many preconceived notions of what true adulting looks like. At 33 years old, I am fast approaching a turning point in life whereby I will have lived more years as an adult than a child. I’m […]
What NOT To Do In An Avalanche: Learning From Other’s Mistakes
The Luckiest Avalanche Victim On Earth The other day I saw an unsolicited post catch my eye as the headline had me curious: “Warning: Do Not Ski Off Trail”. Since anyone who knows ANYTHING about snow sliding knows that going off-trail is where the magic happens, I was curious why people would warn such nonsense. It […]
Tour Group vs. Going Solo – Pros and Cons of Each
Originally Published in the PacSafe Blog Planning to take a trip somewhere is the easy part. Usually you have a destination, a rough region, or maybe even just a continent in mind for where you want to head. After that, the details can be a bit overwhelming. Usually the biggest decision you’ll have to make […]
Aloha: More Than a Word
I’m not one to go explaining things as if I know it all. I don’t pretend to be one of those people who thinks they have something figured out, or that a timeline for having local knowledge is anything less than a lifetime. After all I’ve only lived in Hawaii for not quite a year. […]
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