First Aid… 🩹 The Sting That Wouldn’t Stop 30 Jun 20269 Jun 2026 SOAP Narrative for Wilderness First Aid When Florida's Smallest Wilderness Hazard Has the Biggest Attitude "When definitive care is an hour away or more, you are in the wilderness." When…
First Aid… 🩹 Florida Summer Hypothermia: The Kayaker Everyone Thought Had Heat Exhaustion 16 Jun 20269 Jun 2026 A SOAP Narrative for Wilderness First Aid When definitive care is an hour away or more, you are in the wilderness. A week ago while teaching a Wilderness First Aid…
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…