Putting it in park, Taking in a breath of fresh air Back in high school, I drove a 1982 Jeep CJ7. I’d tear that thing down through the side roads and by roads. A winding tree-lined road in the middle of nowhere…I was gone. And it…

Learning to enjoy the Process as much as the Product Somewhere young in life I realized I had a problem. A chocolate problem. That early intuition was only confirmed soon thereafter by a little book I read by Robert Kimmel Smith. Chocolate Fever. From the back cover:…

Choosing What Story to Tell Tuesday Morning. 9:38am. Sitting at a metal table, under a yellow umbrella, big blue blanket of California sky up above. As I sit here, looking back on these past couple weeks, my mind wanders and wonders. A couple months from now,…