2 Steps Toward Living an Adventurous Life with Your Wife
By the time my husband and I wed, we’d (separately) stockpiled a slew of adventurous experiences. Jaime grew up on water. When it was frozen,…
When We’re Looking for Progress
Cool mountain air drifted through the cracked-open window, bringing sleep-disturbing beeps and rumbles with it. Awake in our tiny room in the back of the…
Tools in the Ruck: The Weight
Carrying a plate I carry a literal steel plate around everywhere I go. Anyone can tell you about my weird habit of carrying my gym…
Doing Life with People: 3 Signs from the Slopes
It’s at the bottom of the slopes that it feels most risky. It’s not the terrain or even the conditions. It’s the people. Up top,…
Tools in the Ruck: Salt, light, and living water (Part 1)
“Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your…
Having Adventures or Living an Adventurous Life?
Waking to the sound of water pelting the window and a gloomy sky that looked to be parked for the day, I heaved a dissatisfied…
1 Way to Stay on Course
My husband and I stood at the end of the discernible trail—looking first at each other and then at the forest floor. A ways back,…
Essential provisions: Tools in the ruck Part 4
Continuing our series of the different tools I carry in my rucks, today we focus on winter adventures with the family! Check out Parts 1-3…
Tools in the Ruck Part 3: The best all-weather notebook
Why write in a notebook? The journey to a life well-lived is not easy. It isn’t cheap. It costs us blood, sweat, tears, and miles…
Refill the Reservoir: the 3 Rs
Wriggling deeper into my sleeping bag, I looked out the side window of our Sequoia. Backlit by the full moon, silhouettes of surrounding lodgepole pines…