Editor’s Note: This is a recap of my experience training for and running the Seattle Rock-n-Roll Half-Marathon. You don’t have to be a runner to appreciate the lessons, but you may need that level of endurance to read to the end of this post. Feel free to skip to the bottom for the lessons if […]

Everybody gets nervous. If you do big things, you’ll have nervous excitement at the very least and full-on terror at the worst. It’s that bumping up against the boundaries of life that causes the reaction. This weekend I’ll be running the Seattle Rock-N-Roll Half-Marathon. This is one big step toward the marathon that has been […]

There is something about covering your body in paint and biking through a crowd of 40,000 people that requires a bit of conviction. Or lunacy. Saturday was the annual Fremont Solstice parade celebrating the beginning of Summer. The parade always kicks off with a couple hundred cyclists donning artistic statements and nothing else, and the […]

No matter what kind of change you make in your life, someone is going to be negative. We’ve heard it all as we’ve prepared for our round-the-world trip: How can you leave your mother? (Our moms live 2000 miles away from us now.) It seems really irresponsible to just take off like that. (Those of […]

“We are travelers, you know, and can put up with any thing.” ~ Mr. Sword Since we started planning for this trip we have met some brave and intrepid travelers who have followed their dreams and explored the world. However, it was not until this last weekend, when I read a journal of a couple […]

Warren has worked in the software industry for a long time, and to this day he still surprises me with offbeat terms used at work. The strangest is probably “violent agreement,” which means you agree on the outcome but not on the way to get there. As a word nerd, this actually sends chills down […]