Here’s a question I get a lot. “Hey, I really want to do ( some cool project or life change ), and I have it all figured out, but there’s no way for me to ( overcome one single obstacle )”. I like receiving questions and am usually happy to answer them, but this one…

It has been surreal to see the pictures of the devastation of Haiti. Normally when these disasters happen and circulate around the internet I don’t feel much of a connection to them. This one is different to me. I spent a few days there last year and really had an amazing experience. I knew that…

Anderson, Todd, Stuart, Autumn, Tynan, Grace “Umm… I have to kick out a lot of bums and crackheads. Take this.” It was a puzzling statement. He handed us three bags of ground coffee, worth almost fifty dollars. We thought he was a fan of what we were doing, so we smiled at him. He didn’t…

A picture of me with my grandparents, siblings, and some cousins before going sledding I’m on a Boeing 757. Out of my window I can see the wingtips, which are bent at the ends to improve fuel efficiency. The web address of the airline is printed on the tips, which should seem totally normal, but…

Despite mostly cutting myself off from parental financing in high school, I’ve actually only had a “real” job for less than a year total in my life. I attribute this not to any great genius on my part, but rather to habit. It was what I was used to doing. I knew that I couldn’t…

I like taking a problem and coming up with a solution so extreme that I end up happy I had the problem in the first place. Taking showers in the RV is acceptable at best, and on cool winter days is a bit of a chore. I solved that problem by joining a spa in…

I once visited some friends in San Francisco who had copied our idea of renting an extravagant house and splitting the cost between the pickup artists who lived there. We called ours Project Hollywood, they called theirs Project San Francisco. We sat around their living room, bonding over stories of the perks and follies of…

I’ve spent most of my time in San Francisco since fleeing the oppressive summer heat of Texas. Since then, mostly thanks to awesome recommendations from other people, I’ve discovered some amazing places here. This is a selection of my favorites… all of which should be checked out by anyone who lives here. Know somewhere else…

After years of butchering a few foreign languages, I’ve developed a keen ear for them. I can’t necessarily understand what people are saying, but if someone is speaking in one of the languages I can get by in, I can hear it across the room. An older man and a younger Japanese woman were sitting…