When Friendship Stops Happening on Its Own: Part Two
Part Two: The Friendships We Choose to Keep Distance, old friendships, new routines and the choices that keep people in…
Transition
A Retirement Update From the Laundry Room: Our Calendar Has Other Plans
See Part One: Home is Where We Open Our Suitcases for the first part of this post. Part Two The…
What a Glass of Barolo Taught Us
The hills stretched out in ordered rows, each line set with a care that felt almost too precise to be…
Portable Order: How Travel Tests (and Refines) Our Rhythm
Travel has a way of revealing what is real. A rhythm that only exists at home is not yet a…
The Case for Snake Skin Shoes
Can we discuss the case for snake skin shoes? There is a well known poem that infers that when I…
When the Alarm Clock Stops: Do We Drift or Design?
October 3, 2025, Michael left for work for the last time. We had coffee on the deck and talked about…