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long rides, raw thoughts, nothing too finished. shared if it gets you somewhere. let’s send it.

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i’m turning 35. do i drive across the country?

moving back to california in a porsche 911, a long distance and bicoastal marriage, and building wababaland in vermont

life has been feeling very country lately

photo essay of northern living

maybe the beauty in life is that things end

a year of writing this blog and 24 hours left to live in mexico city

past trails and building a new path

quotes from an old book and photos from building a trail around our home in Vermont

trading sweat for tears

300 days of morning pages, and what I found when I stopped outrunning my feelings.

the story of my last name

What escaping a Vermont winter with a trip to Spain reveals about my parents, our ancestry in the Philippines, and the cost to own a Porsche.

the new work in progress truck

and five videos the youtube gods have sent me

live, laugh, porsche

a love letter to cars, bikes, and the winter season

marnie critiques six poems about you

why is “i” always capitalized, but not “we”?

photos of play, at home in vermont

and some words on the head, the heart, and stillness.

a conversation with my cat

marnie pulls me out of bed at 5am. for the past ~100 mornings, i feed her, i play with her, i read her the poems i wrote, and we talk about what to do…or not to do.

i’m turning 34. do i bike up another hill?

57 minutes on mt. washington, a 30,000 feet gravel everesting, and why choosing to give up on a goal can be an achievement

to live up to a lie

Do you remember the first time we talked? I barely do. It’s all blurry now, but there was something in that moment that I can see clearly. Not any of the details, but all the feelings.

first time human

After a friend shared how life can be understood as inhales and exhales, the idea of "breathing" has been lingering on my mind for the past two weeks.

truthfully messy, unintentionally organized

allowing myself to have publicly unedited thoughts