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Mammoth Mountain Camping - Part II

Mammoth Mountain Camping - Part II

There's this idea in the minimalist art movement that the seeming simplicity of the art causes the observer to enter a type of meditative, contemplative state that they otherwise would not have have accessed without the help of the particular piece of art being observed. A long time

06 Feb 2026
Mammoth Mountain Camping - Part I

Mammoth Mountain Camping - Part I

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” - John Muir I am fairly pragmatic in my everyday life. I like things to make sense, I appreciate functionality, and boy oh boy do I love being right! About anything and everything. But nothing - outside my wife

03 Feb 2026
The Books I Read in 2025

The Books I Read in 2025

Reading is fundamental. Plain and simple. And yet, just "19% of American adults did 82% of the country's reading" last year; a grim statistic. Reading fiction lets you walk the proverbial mile in someone else's shoes. In a previous post, I quoted Trevor Noah:

12 Jan 2026

My Favorite Photos of 2025, Part II

Going into the latter-half of the year, I am so grateful that my family and I have been able to do so much that take us out of our home into the communities and the natural beauty around us. Trevor Noah said, "If there's one thing you

31 Dec 2025

My Favorite Photos of 2025 - Part I

I started the year off in some pretty deep grief following the passing of my beloved mother-in-law. Grief is like swimming out into the ocean to where you can no longer comfortably touch the bottom. The waves don't stop coming just because you don't feel safe,

23 Dec 2025
Zion National Park, Final Day

Zion National Park, Final Day

Man, how to compete with The Narrows, right? But since there's no real ability to, you just gotta do the exact opposite. Which is walk all damn day in the blazing hot sun. We woke up and took things a little slowly. We had a few too many

18 Nov 2025
Zion National Park, Day 2

Zion National Park, Day 2

We set our alarms for early. Like... early early. The kind of early that momentarily puts you in a rotten mood when you set your phone's alarm to the kind of time that someone who said they stayed up all night partying would say they stayed up until.

23 Oct 2025
Zion National Park, Day 01

Zion National Park, Day 01

To know me, is to know that I'm down. For pretty much anything, anytime, anywhere. And when my sister-in-law asked us, "We got a random camping day in Zion, wanna come?", you know what my answer was. I love a road trip. Like... I LOVE A

08 Oct 2025

A New Publishing Platform

It's been a little bit, friends, and I just want to give a brief check-in. If you've received this in your inbox, then that means I have done everything correct in my transition from Substack to Ghost (although I'm not looking to turn my

03 Oct 2025
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