Collision!

Recently, I watched a film about our planet’s two polar regions with some amazing footage. In one scene, two heavy male muskox went head to head, colliding over and over again at thirty miles an hour with each other in a battle of dominance that often...

Snapshots

Yesterday, I bookended my post Don’t Blow the Balloon with a couple of pieces of the swell artist Sean O’Meallie’s swell art. Actually, that was the point of the post – how something seemingly small and inconsequential can balloon into...

Uncompromising Climb

Last fall, Niels Davis (above) led Geoffrey Keating of Keating Woodworks (below) and me up a gorgeous 3 pitch rock climb called The Martyr. It had been a good long while since I’d last climbed, and as I followed Niels, who, after making quick work of...

Take a Page from Page

In school, it’s best to keep a broad perspective for as long as possible, but for “creatives” who’ve clocked their 10,000 hours of dedicated study years ago, today’s prescription runs counter to the above message.In my on again, off again...

Work In Progress – Expect the Unexpected

It’s June 7, 2017, 3:44 am.Today we transition from preparation to production.About a year ago, after the second of two back-to-back trips to Europe, I was making another transition of sorts. For a short window of a few weeks early in 2016, I’d thought my...