Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
Lisbon, Portugal was originally an eight hour layover on my way to Spain. I identified a couple of BJJ schools close to the airport, that offered an opportunity to train since I was going to try to catch some site seeing between flights. Because of my timing in the city I booked an inexpensive Airbnb Continue Reading
How else could I make a recent relaxing getaway to Colonial Williamsburg, VA, known for its serene walkways through historic towns, ferries along the James River, and cozy pancake shops, uncomfortable better than by visiting a BJJ school? Well, I still enjoyed the strolls through history, ate an obscene amount of pancakes, and got in Continue Reading
During the last few months of the COVID-19 quarantine, I took advantage of my early vaccination and remote working status to visit Utah. Yeah…Utah seems random as hell, but Utah is an amazingly beautiful state that I wanted to explore a bit more than driving through it provided a few years ago. I decided to Continue Reading
I became a single parent as a young man. It was challenging to perform the usual paces of an energized twenty-something in the city with a pullup-clad toddler vomiting in a papoose each day, but we managed. I always say my son raised me into adulthood. I say this because my son helped me learn Continue Reading