Grahic Designer and Writer
Each year Japanese Shintoists make pilgrimages to waterfalls and bodies of water throughout the country to participate in a sacred purification ritual known as misogi. They submerge themselves (or sometimes just take a drink) and cleanse their bodies of pollution, welcoming in a new spirit. Then they do it again the next year. There is …
For the past few years my wife, Laura, has been finishing her late dad’s bucket list. He was killed by a distracted driver on her cell phone, and a few years later my brother-in-law found a document in his belongings titled Things I Would Like To Do In My Lifetime! There were 60 items on …
When the pandemic hit back in March I was in the middle of training to run the Big Sur International Marathon. It was to be my first one and I was very excited, even though the course is known to be one of the toughest in the country. So when lockdown hit the race was …