April 19, 2023
I had always been an avid fisherman, but it wasn’t until later in life that I truly began to appreciate the special moments that come with the sport. There’s something about sitting on the shore of the ocean, the waves crashing in the distance and the sun setting on the horizon, that can bring a […]
September 13, 2022
In my book “Cycles” it becomes rather obvious rather quickly that I didn’t have a close relationship with either of my parents. I was either left to fend for myself most of the time, or getting in trouble for touching something that my father hadn’t wanted messed with while he was away at work. […]
September 1, 2022
I did a thing. Over 5,000 miles on a motorcycle riding mostly off road across America. Starting in North Carolina and ending with my boots touching the cold waters of the Pacific in Port Orford, Oregon. Travelling through record high temperatures in the south easily surpassing one hundred degrees most days. Heat so overbearing we’d […]
June 10, 2022
Doing the thing One of the things I’m most interested in, is that moment where you want to do something or know you should do something, and you don’t. I procrastinate and put it off. For hours, days – sometimes years at a time. And there’s usually an unlocking moment where the dam breaks free […]
April 29, 2022
Finding the weeds Ever since I moved into my house in North Carolina, I’ve watched a Gardenia bush by our front door. For the longest time, it never thrived. I wondered about it because the conditions for the plant were perfect. It received the right amount of sunshine. It was growing near a leaky spout […]
March 30, 2022
There’s a room in a man’s heart. Inside, a lone chair with a small circular table off to one side. Most men – when no one is looking – are sitting in that chair in that room with the door closed holding their face between their palms and sighing. Inside their room minds, a spider […]
March 29, 2022
Doing impossible things About four years ago, I came across an article online about people who were crossing America off road on motorcycles. The kinds of motorcycles you saw in ‘Mad Max’ movies, as opposed to something James Dean would drive, or Paulie from ‘American Choppers.’ Adventure motorcycles that were designed to go on and […]
March 12, 2022
Stress, stretchy pants, and mutation One of the tenets of Enlytened – is fitness. Having a sense of wellbeing in relation to your body. I’ve always struggled with fitness and didn’t exactly inherit the Dwayne Johnson genes from the deeper end of my families genetic pool. I like most people that struggle, have my bigger […]
January 27, 2022
“What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.” – Veronica Roth My wife asks me questions about memories we’d made earlier in our relationship. If I remember visiting FAO Schwartz, for example, when we were dating. Visiting the ice skating rink in Rockefeller Center on the same trip. These […]