Life + Adventure

  • What I hoped to find; and what I found instead

    What I hoped to find; and what I found instead

    Ever since Sam and I decided to settle in his hometown, we’d had a compromise: I could live here if we were still able to escape for two or three months over winter and go stay in the tropics again.  I’d sacrificed my dream of permanently making a move there, so I thought that…

  • Improve your Surfing Mindset

    Improve your Surfing Mindset

    When You Improve in Surfing, You Improve in Life. There are endless resources online showing you how to improve your surfing—techniques, tutorials, training tips, you name it. And while those are helpful, they won’t get you far without the right mindset. So let’s talk about that. Because when you shift your mindset to improve your…

  • A New Perspective at 40:

    A New Perspective at 40:

    From struggling to self belief Have you ever looked around and felt like you weren’t enough, or didn’t have enough? Like others around you have it all figured out — and you were somehow left behind? I get it. As I approached my 40th birthday, that’s precisely where I found myself. I had spent…