Spice of life

As much as I crave stability, I now realize I crave variety. This quarantine has shown me what I have been searching for my entire life. Peter Pan with a paycheck. I don’t want to be a real grown up. I don’t want a normal life. I want adventure. And fun. And memories. And insane […]

Roll with it

There’s so little we can actually control in our lives. We can control our day to day decisions of what we do and who we talk to and how we want to spend our time and energy and emotional responses. But in the grand scheme of things, the world is really out of our control. […]

Two years down

It’s been two years since I earned my wings. Two years of take-offs and landings, short overnights, bad hotel beds, great hotel beds, early sign-ins, red-eye flights. Two years of packing a suitcase in the morning and not knowing where I’d sleep that night. Two years of new cities and old friends, street food and […]

Back home in Beautiful Nebraska

Nebraska has a special place in my heart. In recent years, I’ve been able to make amazing memories there, nearly all stemming from my friends in Lincoln. I met Bill and Katie while living in Wyoming. Bill and I worked at competing TV stations but bonded over our passion for the laziest Saturdays watching College […]

My love letter to New York

“One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe It’s hard to describe New York. It’s loud, but you can find the most peaceful spots in parks or tree-lined streets. The people can be crass and seem mean, but they look out […]