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Thoughts on reinvention, clarity, work, money, and the quiet decisions that shape a life. New essays each week as we explore what it means to build a life with intention.
Six Things I Wish My 45-Year-Old Self Had Known
I went back to look at photos from June 2019. I was 45. My son was heading into high school. We had just spent 10 days in Alaska, helicopters over glaciers, sled dogs, ice calving off tidewater walls, and a bear-watching tour that produced zero bears and a family pun tradition that still runs. My wife and I stayed up past midnight somewhere in the Inside Passage, the sun refusing to set, talking about the life we were building.
I had a job I loved. A great team. I was present for the moments that mattered.
And still, looking back from 52, there are six things I wish I had known, not because I was failing, but because knowing them would have made a good season even better.
Reclaiming the Part of Me I Thought I’d Lost
The strange thing about losing yourself to a career is that it usually happens while you're winning. A story about the identities we choose, the ones we lose without warning, and what the desert, or wherever you go to hear yourself think, has a way of revealing when everything else goes quiet.