TL;DR: Life doesn’t arrive in manageable portions. The practice I am learning is to hold all of it… at once. “On All of It” April 26, 2026 Hiya There is a moment I keep returning to from the past week: Our Mama, moving thro...
TL;DR: Sometimes I get pulled by things that are just a little off course. My next role is not about less. It is about angle. Bringing the right and the left in closer, so that everything I focus on is more directional. A week of three terrains - the...
TL;DR: Last week, I turned 54, walked the battlefields at Antietam, had coffee with three great friends, and experienced that the cost of hesitation isn’t always dramatic. Sometimes it just looks like just saying “maybe.” "On Going Long"12 April...
TL;DR: This week I rode mountain bikes along the Pacific, watched a car drive itself through San Luis Obispo, sat with a question I thought had no answer, and learned (again) that what I’m holding tightest is sometimes the thing most ready to be hand...
TL;DR: This week I was on base, in coaching conversations, on a Teams call with 100 people, at dinner with an old friend, and standing in the Grand Canyon. The thread that kept surfacing: how hard it is to see a path before it’s obvious - and the wil...
TL;DR: This week I was the overnight caregiver for my mom in Petaluma so my sister could rest, and I rode my bike through West Marin twice with nothing but cows and a white line for company. Both required the same thing - showing up, being quiet, and...
TL;DR: This week, people kept showing me something about myself. Frances Hesselbein showed me years ago. My mom showed me on Tuesday. Jodi showed me by text. Maybe this week I will finally let it land.TSN 26.11 "On Letting It Land"March 15, 2026Hiya...
TL;DR: This week, I stood in a room of 100+ senior leaders at Maxwell Air Force Base and felt something I’ve been building toward since January 2019 - purpose with pressure underneath it. I walked away with 49 notecards, a nearly finished book, five...
TL;DR: A week of moving from conference room to conference room and hearing hard news… twice. (1) we lost an Airman to suicide and (2) my Mama went to the ER…again. I logged twelve hundred pushups and heard that four leaders I worked with have finish...
TL;DR: Decisions land in the gut before they land on paper. A pivot, a book in progress, and a mentor's nudge toward the long game; all of it running alongside the quiet work of watching my Mama recover, learning the difference between what I want fo...
