Every Monday, I feature an image and backstory from my Pointe of View series. For more, view all these ballerina posts or visit the Pointe of View store. There’s something about this photograph that just speaks to my heart: the muted tones of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline; Lexi’s dynamic movement captured in this beautiful line, made still…
It rained that night, the second night of our rail tour in Ireland. We had just completed our loop around the Ring of Kerry, and just as we got back to Killarney, the rain came down. We ran under the hotel awning. Back in the hotel room, I swapped my cloth Toms for wellies (rain…
I had the absolute privilege of visiting Ireland on a last minute whim in August. My friend Mitha organized the entire trip, and we started and ended in Dublin while going on a three-day rail tour in the middle. On day one we headed to the Blarney Castle to kiss the Blarney Stone, we went through…
Ireland is an incredibly beautiful country spread across an area that’s only the size of Indiana. The cities are never too big, and the towns are very charming, but it’s the countryside that really stole my heart. It really is as green as promised. It was mid-August when my friend Mitha told me online that…
Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF) is a summer camp that I have attended almost every year since the age of ten. It’s just one week, 200 Taiwanese American youth, and a small college campus in North Manchester Indiana. But of course, it provides an endless supply of life-changing experiences, memories, and relationships. In countless ways, TAF has shaped…
We have finally reached the grand finale of my California Coasting solo road trip: San Diego! Over the course of one week, I drove about 1300 miles and made twenty or thirty-some stops along the way, generating this slew of eleven different blog posts. I love the sense of adventure and space for reflection that…
And finally, my solo road trip reaches San Diego! After a lovely lunch with my friends Wayne & Angela, I headed back toward the ocean for a visit to La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya). I think I may have found a little slice of paradise. When I walked over to the prohibitive-looking cliffs, a friendly…
After a couple days in LA, I decided to finally head even further south, extending my California Coasting road trip. For all the trips that I have made to LA, I have never actually gone the extra two hours to visit San Diego. Of course, I made just a couple stops along the way in…
I visit the Los Angeles area almost once a month, sometimes for work but most often for no reason at all. I treat it like my second home. Kevin is not only my friend and business partner, but he and his wife Jenny and our other friends in LA are like family to me. So…
In my first two days of solo roadtripping, I met lots of interesting people and awesome animals, but it was quite nice to arrive in Ventura and be reunited with a human being that I actually knew– my Seaglass Cinema partner Kevin! I still don’t have a good grasp of what Ventura is all about, but…
Prior to my visit, the best I could gather about Ojai was that it was a small town with a lot of farm land, and that people also like to go there for high end spas and relaxation. Both of those things seem to hold true. Ojai also happens to be where the Gardner family…
Solvang. It’s a little Danish town in California somewhere between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. This was my fourth stop on day two of my solo road trip. There are plenty of bakeries and windmills to go around, and the town also got a little feature in the movie Sideways. I also happened to…