Brave TedTalk

With The Band

The Ladies that Let Me Sing With Them

Stop by MoJava on November 29th @ 7pm for my latest musical adventure. It's bound to be an evening of good music. Come down anytime. I'll play early in the set.

News Brief

Reading: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Running News: I've committed to running the Colder Boulder this year. Laced up my shoes twice this week to get ready for it. Double knots, wool socks and everything.

Quote of My Day: "...I think for me, one of the definitive moments in my life was realizing that most of us are brave and afraid in the exact same moment all day long." - Brene Brown

Late Fall

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”   -L.M. Montgomery

High Heels

I called my girlfriend last night as I was zipping up high boots. I told her whenever I wear high heels I think of the story she told me in college about her mom. A WWII war-bride from Japan. She married a tall soldier and, when he got stationed in the U.S., she followed after him by boat. 

They planned to meet on a California pier and start a new life together. She walked off the boat, teetering on high heels, in order to kiss him. But the arrangements weren't right. He wasn't there. Wrong day. Wrong boat. I'm not sure. But she walked the pier all day on wobbly, high heels. Looking out at the ocean that laid between her and the life or even the language she knew.

I told my college girlfriend I was wearing high heeled boots. That I was venturing out into the cold with a companion much taller than myself. 

Día de Muertos

Photo Credit: UNL Newsroom

My favorite of the late fall holidays has arrived. I hope you have the occasion to spend this Día de Muertos in reverence of those people, present and past, that love you.