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Notes from Home: On Travel, Our Brains &  A 350-Pound Penguin

Notes from Home: On Travel, Our Brains & A 350-Pound Penguin

February 13, 2023

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” ~Pat Conroy One morning last week, I was having breakfast at our kitchen table when a New York Times story about discovering the fossilized remains of … Read More

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The Salton Sea: A Ghost of Former Glory in the California Desert

The Salton Sea: A Ghost of Former Glory in the California Desert

February 7, 2023

The Salton Sea. It’s a poetic name for a place that is neither poetic nor a sea. The landlocked body of water in the California desert is actually the state’s largest lake, a saline-filled depression in the earth with a higher salt level than the Pacific Ocean and a story that reads more like science … Read More

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Notes from Home: Lessons, Love & Looking Back

Notes from Home: Lessons, Love & Looking Back

January 2, 2023

Seven years ago today, I set out on an adventure that I had no way of knowing would still be going strong. On January 2, 2016, after months of exploring an idea that had stubbornly planted itself inside my entire being, I pressed publish and began sharing a deeply important part of my life with … Read More

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