Personal Blog: 2023-11 Administrative Results
It’s been about a year since I took off in the Beast on my quest to cure my permanently broken heart. I want to tell you that I did the best I could. I want to tell you that I made some progress…
Personal Blog: 2023-08 My Quest
I confided in an old friend my misgivings about spending a year traveling across the country, conceding that it would damage my career, my finances, and my future earning potential. She told me it was alright so long as I knew what I was doing. I didn’t have the heart to tell her directly, but …
Personal Blog: 2023-03 The Beast
I have been on a journey since I left Virginia back in November. From my old hometown of Herndon, VA, I packed my belongings into a small U-Haul van and drove up to Philadelphia, PA to pick up and move into my home on wheels. From there I crossed the American Midwest through Columbus, OH …
Personal (B)log: 2022-12 Change Request
When I returned home from a month on the road at the end of July, I decided to sell out. I mean that in a lot of different ways. I sold my belongings that wouldn’t fit in a van. I sold my house. I even sold the domain name to my blog (mudkingdom.com is dead, …
Personal (B)Log: When You Can’t Have an Adventure
“You’re just lazy.”“You have a bad attitude.”“You can always make time for adventure.” There is truth in these statements. If my priority was to get out into the world I would be there, but I’m not quite there just yet. Back in February, Maggie, the mud doggo, developed a little sinus issue right around the …
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Personal (B)Log: Finding Faith in the Dark
The night before I took the Mud Doggo in for surgery I had a dream that I remembered the next morning. I was in a tiny rowboat in the ocean on dark and cloudy night, far enough out to not see land, but close enough to see a lighthouse warning ships away from sharp rocks …
Personal (B)Log: 2021-04-01
I know I haven’t updated in three months. I don’t want you think that I haven’t been up to anything – I have a lot going on! I spent a lot of the winter in the Canaan Valley practicing skijoring with the Mud Doggo and didn’t think you guys would want to see a series …