by toby | Sep 14, 2016 | Life, Traveling
Picking huckleberries in Canada is one of life's profound joys. But I get ahead of myself. Mike has been restless and prowling like a caged tiger since we arrived, dying to go fishing and exploring even as I dig deeper into the quiet: into resting, reading, writing,...
by toby | Sep 13, 2016 | Life, Traveling
We are traveling to Prince Rupert, Canada, to house swap with a family there, and thinking to be as direct as possible, we took a red eye on Air Canada from Maui to Vancouver. I was grateful for two things: 1) I didn’t faint. I’ve had a situation develop in the last...
by toby | Aug 1, 2016 | Life
Five reasons procrastination is a valid coping strategy took form in my thoughts as my co-authoring partner, Emily Kimelman, and I deferred, for the third time, a difficult task we needed tackle involving coordinating a day-by-day timeline of the plot of our series...
by toby | Mar 15, 2016 | Life
Insights from my recent wellness retreat were hard won, but worthwhile, so I thought I’d share for those who may be looking for a health solution that's a little “outside the box.” Some of you may know that I’ve struggled for years with an increasingly...
by toby | Jan 8, 2016 | Hawaii, Life, Parenting
There was six-foot surf goddess in my bedroom! Bethany Hamilton surfs like a girl, but moms like a woman, and last week, Bethany arrived on Maui with her hunky husband Adam, baby Tobias, father Tom, and filmmaker Aaron Lieber, to capture footage for her upcoming film,...
by toby | Dec 31, 2015 | Life
Embracing mediocrity was a turning point for me, but New Year’s resolutions have always been a favorite flagellation. For the last twenty years and more, every New Year’s eve I’d go off by myself to review my journals from the year. The last ten years, I’d go up on...