Happy October! Dallas is having unseasonably warm weather that looks like it’s going to continue as far as the forecast can see, so I’m bracing myself for another sweaty long run this weekend. It is still cooler than it was most of the summer, though, and I’m glad to report that I’ve been able to…

It is the end of September, and the most magical season of the year is upon us. There has been a fresh new release of operating systems for Apple devices. We have all sorts of new features and tweaks available to us now! You can move app icons and widgets around on your home screen…

After a week back in reality, I’m starting to dive into my photos from the trip and get to editing. I ended up with about 2,000 of them, so I imagine it’ll be a little while before I run out of new ones to share! One of the highlights of the weekend that I’m looking…

Grand Teton National Park, 2024. Shot on iPhone, edited with Lightroom. Sometimes I get shots from my phone that make me wonder why I lug my giant camera around. On vacation last week, I was told to pack for a hike that was 7.4 miles (7 km) long round-trip with 2,200 feet (670 m) of…

Some vacations are slow and relaxing. You go to the beach and read for a week. You go to the lake and read for a week1. You go to a new town and just bebop around without an itinerary. This vacation was very much not one of those vacations. We had just about every moment…

Photo by Alev Takil on Unsplash I’m writing this newsletter from an airplane. I’m watching a college football game on my phone, too. In about two-and-a-half hours, I’ve travelled hundreds of miles in a metal tube tens of thousands of feet above the ground. Not only did I not have to worry—statistically speaking—about whether or…

It has been a long week here. We’re wrapping up a major project at work today and I am very happy to have it done, but it’s taken a lot from the whole team to get it there. Our theme for today is trouble, which just fell into my lap last week when I looked…

I rarely ever get to be the person who just sits on that bench or the person who takes this photo, which is why I had to use a stock photo. Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash I started running because I felt overweight and had no money, and running was ostensibly a free sport.…

We got rain this week! The temperatures tumbled and the clouds rolled in and I haven’t been this happy in months. I wore corduroy and wool and nothing but fall colors. I’m in heaven. Everything about this cloudy existence this week has been wonderful, but I did notice that I don’t tend to think to…