If you were looking for me at 3:34pm on March 15, 2016, you wouldn’t have found me at my desk. …

It’s not about distance—it’s about time — Wa(l)king up in the morning It’s 4:39am in Seattle. My wife’s asleep in our bed, safe and warm. Curled up next to her is Prim, our nine year old rottweiler/lab mix. Her paws twitch as she dreams. I often wonder what my old dog dreams about. In dog years, she’s on the darker side of…

Renewing my promises on our 10th anniversary — Originally written on November 17, 2006 in Piha, New Zealand and published on my blog. I’ve learned a new word while we’ve been traveling around New Zealand: tapu. I was told that it’s a Maori word meaning something akin to the Unknown and that the Maori use it when referring…

And dance again, and hold her great-grandchildren again, and… — You may not know my mother in law, Marcia Huhta, but on June 6th, Marcia’s life changed forever. That’s the day that Marcia and her husband, Matti, survived a head-on car collision. Marcia was rescued from the wrecked vehicle with the jaws of life and air-lifted to a hospital for…

My journey to UX and content strategy in 86 bullet points — I studied technical writing in college. My professors taught me to write in bullet points. Much like this. Oh look—here’s another one. This was back in the 1990s when we did the Macarena. We did it over and over again, going through the motions of the dance. I wanted to…

Three stories about the things we can’t say — In 1984—when they told us that the Soviets boycotting the Olympics in Los Angeles wasn’t such a big deal, really—Marvel Comics published Secret Wars. It was such an amazing comic book series… nothing like it had ever been done before. …