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January 2026

  1. Learning how to save, nineteen years later

February 2025

  1. Red Cards

January 2025

  1. Learning how to save, eighteen years later
  2. Gainfully Unretired

October 2024

  1. Historic, in 2024

January 2024

  1. Learning how to save, seventeen years later

December 2023

  1. Accidentally Unretired

December 2022

  1. What To Do Next?
  2. Learning how to save, sixteen years later

November 2022

  1. Time to Make the Eggnog

October 2022

  1. What Our House Actually Cost

February 2022

  1. Timber Framing Initiation

January 2022

  1. Learning how to save, fifteen years later

September 2021

  1. How We Got to the End

August 2021

  1. Bisecting “The Bob”
  2. Beast Mode

July 2021

  1. Roadwalk Reroute
  2. The Slackpack Streak
  3. Yellowstone Backcountry Transit

June 2021

  1. Birthday Airmail Resupply
  2. The Blowdown Lowdown

April 2021

  1. I am not throwing away my shot!

February 2021

  1. Landscape Accounting

January 2021

  1. Glug Glug Glug Glug Glug Pizza
  2. Watching me work

October 2020

  1. How to Coordinate a Supported Thru-Hike

September 2020

  1. Flipflop Slackpack
  2. Snowbound on the CDT
  3. Resupply in the San Juans
  4. Goodbye Colorado Trail
  5. Colorado Trail Magic

August 2020

  1. From the CDT to the CT
  2. Intro to Colorado
  3. Wyoming Colorado Interstitial

July 2020

  1. Getting My Overland Legs
  2. Why I’m sleeping on top of a Jeep in Wyoming

May 2020

  1. Lasagna offcuts

April 2020

  1. Spreadsheet cornbread
  2. Couscous à la française, inspiré de l’Afrique du Nord, pour Stéphanie
  3. Black bean chili (without guardrails)
  4. A GRE question for our times

March 2020

  1. Crepe myrtle buds

January 2020

  1. I’m famous! (on a composition notebook in India)

October 2019

  1. 788.7 miles in 53 days

September 2019

  1. Learning how to save, twelve (point seven five) years later
  2. Snowbound in Tahoe

July 2019

  1. Our Fresno Summer Salad

February 2019

  1. I’m famous! (in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan)
  2. San Francisco Sunset

January 2019

  1. Second Sabbatical

December 2018

  1. A Belated Thanksgiving in Death Valley

July 2018

  1. Hawk at work

March 2018

  1. We marched for our lives
  2. What the end of the world looks like
  3. Along Bolinas Ridge
  4. Snowy Plover Triptych

February 2018

  1. Hamburgers are cheaper

January 2018

  1. Learning how to save, eleven years later

December 2017

  1. Desert Thanksgiving in Joshua Tree

October 2017

  1. Adventures in Real Estate, part 4
  2. Lupita Nyong’o: Speaking Out About Harvey Weinstein

September 2017

  1. Hansen Unplugged: Anthem protests not about disrespecting the flag
  2. NOAA Found Poetry

July 2017

  1. Dining Nook Renovations
  2. Rim to Rim to Rim
  3. Portrait of Hamburger

May 2017

  1. Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son’s Birth & Heart Disease

April 2017

  1. How I Made My Own iPhone
  2. 48 Miles in 12 Hours

March 2017

  1. Mount Diablo and Mission Peak Doubleheader

February 2017

  1. Proud to call California home
  2. Proud to support the ACLU and Planned Parenthood

January 2017

  1. Stranger Things Cast: Acceptance Speech
  2. Carrot Cake Cupcakes for Chris
  3. Learning how to save, ten years later

December 2016

  1. How to set up a 401(k)
  2. La Jeep in Death Valley

November 2016

  1. Hot sauce as celebrity truth serum
  2. Roadkill and Dirt Every Day

October 2016

  1. Historic, in 2016
  2. Southern Utah and Northern Arizona Road Trip

August 2016

  1. 220 Miles in 11 Days

May 2016

  1. The Roth Awakening

April 2016

  1. Ohlone Wilderness Trail
  2. Eighteen Quintillion YouTube Videos

March 2016

  1. My Grandmother passed away
  2. The Perfect Omelet
  3. Peters Creek Loop
  4. Skyline-to-the-Sea

January 2016

  1. Hike to Murietta Falls
  2. El Corte de Madera Creek
  3. Index Card Financial Advice
  4. Learning how to save, nine years later

December 2015

  1. Double Dipsea

November 2015

  1. Mission Peak
  2. Point Reyes Anniversary
  3. Summiting Diablo
  4. What is living in San Francisco like?

October 2015

  1. Looping around Big Basin
  2. Atypical Point Reyes

September 2015

  1. Morning on the Coastal Trail
  2. Hiking the GR5
  3. The 2013 and 2014 Photo Books

July 2015

  1. Preparing for the Alps on Mt Tam
  2. Return to Butano

June 2015

  1. Portuguese Cheese
  2. The Great Purge
  3. Trinity Alps’ Canyon Creek Trail

May 2015

  1. Responsive Redesign
  2. Bike to Work Day Poster Boy

April 2015

  1. Feeling Helpless about Homelessness
  2. Thanksgiving in Death Valley

March 2015

  1. This is neat: Computing the optimal road trip across the…
  2. Limited Range of Motion
  3. Olecranon Fracture

January 2015

  1. A Belated Happy New Year!
  2. Learning how to save, eight years later

December 2014

  1. My kind of nativity: Dinosaurs Winning the Internet
  2. On a positive note: For years, the partitions between the…
  3. Wow: “We’ve got a financial system in the U.S.,” she…
  4. This is pretty cool: The President, in 3D

November 2014

  1. Emergency Kit
  2. Rockstar Life
  3. 52 regional Thanksgiving dishes by state: The United States…
  4. DocPop’s experience with “Shirtstorm” reminded me…
  5. I love the things people are passionate about: How to fold…
  6. Unintentional post-apocalypticism: Sand dune next to a…
  7. So we did this thing

October 2014

  1. I found this long article about transgender people at…
  2. Hallowed ground

September 2014

  1. Return to the High Sierra Camps
  2. The Rae Lakes Loop
  3. Ooo, I want to try this stove-top spatchcocked recipe:…
  4. Three (or Four or Five) Day Coq au Vin
  5. Hyperbolic Discounting is the new Imposter Syndrome
  6. Instant Pulitzer: How municipalities in St. Louis County,…
  7. Dad at the end of the PCT
  8. Loving this photo: Not a big deal. Just some deer running…

August 2014

  1. Our sonic earthquake experience
  2. There should be a domestic news source that always read…
  3. Recipe I want to try: Grilled Chile Flank Steak With Salsa
  4. What a drone sounds like
  5. Sometimes I do this: My worst habit: when I should be…
  6. Stephanie’s Fresh Chevre Tutorial was posted on Make!
  7. Yesterday my brother Matthew met my dad on the PCT near…

July 2014

  1. So this happened (or is happening): FTD buying parent of…
  2. Oh man, an Atwood tool geared specifically at old school…
  3. Looking at Photos the Master Never Saw captures the…
  4. 150 Miles in 8 Days

June 2014

  1. Intercepting Dad on the PCT

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