“It’s a little bit funny, this feeling inside,” So the song goes. That song. “The” song. “Your Song.” Our song. From the first time I complained about the cover and you assured me the original songwriter blessed the rendition, to the next two and a half hours on that flight I spent listening, meditating on […]
Katie
“And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning.” [Eye of The Tiger Pt. 2]
Five-thirty on a Labor Day weekend Friday night. I’m sitting with the dogs outside the Otis Cafe in Otis, OR, while Bruer goes in and has dinner with his brother, brother’s wife, and newborn. Uncle Blaise surprise visit. I volunteered to stay with my dogs so they could eat and catch up. The dogs weren’t […]
Diving head-first into the hurricane
I started this 40,000 feet up and somewhere over Salt Lake City, heading west for home after 12 days, 6,000 miles, 4 states, 3 coasts, 3 beds, 2 couches, 1 mattress, and 1 photobomb of the mother and her 2 kids in front of us, worth of travel. All this just to surprise a childhood […]
[Actually] living in California
In the 5 months since we’ve been out here I’ve been away for 6 weeks. I’ve been away from Katie for 4 and a half of them. Chicago, Valparaiso and Oregon have been the destinations. They’ve been great trips, don’t get me wrong. In fact, I’m looking forward to having the time to write up […]
Why we moved to California.
Yeah. So. We moved to California. It still doesn’t read quite right as I type it. As if out of a myth. But, 3 months in and we’re finally starting to settle in. We only have a couple boxes left to unload. Why did we move to California? It started at a coffee house. Katie […]