Holiday Season… 🌲 A Father’s Rhythm: Living My Ikigai in the Wild and at Home 🌿 12 Jun 202511 Jun 2025 ☀️ The Quiet Mornings That Matter Most Some mornings, before the sun stretches over the mangroves and the cicadas begin their song, I sit in stillness—coffee in hand, the rhythm…
Holiday Season… 🌸 A Mother’s Strength: Wilderness, Love, and the Woman Beside Me 🌿 11 May 202528 May 2025 ☀️ Before the World Wakes The morning light stretches across our porch. There’s a hush in the palms and the slow breath of another Florida sunrise. My coffee steams.Birdsong hums…
Cooking… 🧼 Leave No Trace: cleaning pots + 5 Sep 201110 Dec 2024 We are getting ready for our expedition and one challenge is cleanliness. If you are not clean in the outdoors you get sick. So I thought I would take a…
Cooking… 🔥 Leave No Trace: campfire 25 Nov 200910 Dec 2024 Campfires... I have spent many a night watching the flames dance and mingle among the stars on a moonless night. I have heard many tall tails and ghost-stories become accentuated…
Cooking… 🧼 Leave No Trace: human waste 15 Jul 200910 Dec 2024 As the title implies this post is a dirty subject. I am a backpacker first and a paddler second. So the practice of handling feces in the outdoors is a…