Pura Vida: Part 2 – Where the Wild Things Are

If you haven’t read Pura Vida: Part 1 – The Winners Circle Please read that first. Enjoy! The winding and curving of the roads in Costa Rica become tiresome on the stomach, but as you move toward the center of the country, the scenery is anything but…

Pura Vida: Part 1 – The Winners Circle

Vacations usually start off simple at face value. People go places and do things to break the monotony of the life that has swallowed them whole. They need a change of pace, and then back into the whale they go – into the darkness, until…

Death and The Beginning of My 30’s

  On the final day of my strongest decade yet, I was hung over. It seems fitting that I ended my twenties like I spent the majority of them – sitting in bed, eating bacon and eggs, trying not to dry heave, drinking water and…

We Don’t All Get Dessert

At age 11, I was smack-dab the middle of those years ramping up to manhood. This was a time when things dropped and other things grew and every hormone in my body was like an irate grocery store customer taking out their bad day on the…