Welcome Back (2021)

Prelude In early Summer of 2021, my wife & I took a fabulous camping trip to Kings Canyon/Sequoia National Park.  It was our first travel since pre-pandemic lockdown, 15+ months earlier.  We had both crossed our “fully vaccinated” threshold date recently; city life was starting to reopen but an outdoor getaway was both long overdue—everything felt long …

And Yet… (9 June, 2022)

I've had a tremendous run of good times recently. It's almost as if life as we once assumed was normal is here again, and is coming around to bringing new opportunities in place of the menu of challenge that has been in front of us for the last couple years. Almost. After something like 20 …