November 9, 2014 Rome, Italy As I sit here trying to figure out what to write you for your 35th birthday, I am truly at a loss for words. If I was as creative or intelligent as you, I would whip out a poem or a racy birthday card like you did for my 41st birthday.… Continue reading The Gift of Love
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Happy Father’s Day: 14 Reasons Why This Guy’s Absolutely Nailing It
Dear Ryan, Remember that article that used photographs of wonderful fathers to blast apart that age-old but annoying convention that dads are incompetent co-parenters? Well, I went and made my own version FOR YOU.
To the Love of My Life on Her Birthday
November 9, 2013 Seville, Spain Many who read about our travels have no idea that there is a story, many stories actually,that pre-date our traveling life. While I will not go into detail here, it is fair to say that you have played a vital role in shaping the man that I am today. Since… Continue reading To the Love of My Life on Her Birthday
What it Means to Captain This Ship: To My Husband On Father’s Day
June 16 Vigo, Galicia, Spain This has been a challenging week, to say the least. Somewhere in the lovely Picos de Europa, our van started to sound as if it were towing a refrigerator up and down the mountains. After consulting a mechanic in Oviedo, we learned that our driver-side caliper was shot and our tie… Continue reading What it Means to Captain This Ship: To My Husband On Father’s Day
Our First Miracle
October 1 – 10 Florence, Italy At this point in our travels, we have found our way to Florence, the central city of the province of Tuscany and the heart and soul of the Italian Renaissance. We have retraced our steps here again, nearly five years and eleven months following the birth of our first… Continue reading Our First Miracle
Countdown
Please accept my apology when I tell you that I haven’t channeled a writerly thought in now nearly a decade. In fact, it is with distinct physical discomfort that I sit alone tonight, in the darkened kitchen nearing 2AM, banging away at this keyboard in what is now my seventh effort to get this damned… Continue reading Countdown