• My hopes for our year in Hawaii

    For once, I’m living in the present.  I’m no longer focused on the future and have absolutely no idea where I’ll be or what I’ll be doing in a year.  And I love that. I feel so free – freer than I have in a long time. But while I…

  • Freedom!

    As we celebrate Independence Day, Kirsten and I recognize our good fortune in being born into such a wonderful country of freedoms. The freedom to move around and live anywhere we want The freedom to pick jobs and careers that work for us The freedom to just pick up and…

  • What the Hell Did We Do?

    I finally sat down and looked at photos of us from our last weeks in Virginia.  Pictures of some of the things we sold, pictures of the kid’s goodbye party, pictures of our empty house and pictures of us arriving here. I couldn’t look at the pictures of our empty…

  • Home Sweet Home!

    Well, it’s certainly been a crazy couple of weeks figuring out housing. It was kind of a goldilocks situation as none of our choices was quite right for us.  For whatever reason, there was very little selection in our price range, and the two houses we ended up deciding between…