WHEN OBEDIENCE DOESN’T MAKE SENSE
It’s easier to hear God if your heart is obedient to God. A surrendered and obedient heart understands the limitations of “leaning on thine own understanding” to experience “exceeding abundantly above all we can ask, think or imagine.” The hardest thing to do is surrender…
How to spend half a day at the Oxford Exchange Tampa
Anybody else get giddy in well designed spaces? I fell in love so hard with this British inspired space, that no trip to Tampa is complete without it. It’s about as close to reliving my days in London as I can get, but without the…
Moments in sugar cane fields
Ever had those moments in time where you’re soaking up everything that’s happening around and wish you could just freeze time in that particular memory because you just don’t want the moment to end. You’re thinking of it. I can see the smile stretching across…
Just because I wear hearing aids doesn’t mean…
Dear hearing people, just because I wear hearing aids doesn’t mean I have bionic hearing. Although there was this one time as a kid that I thought I had superpowers because of my hearing aids. The world was always louder after a visit to the…
Slowing down at Papaya Playa Project
There were no poses in crystalline cenotes. No visits to “insta-worthy” locations. Just palapa-thatched huts dotting the jungle alongside a pristine stretch of the Caribbean sea. We spent our time in unplugged stone white rooms, whose entertainment was the occasional iguana on a distant rock…
Chasing fear in the Yucatan jungle
My eyes darted across the canopy. My legs were trapped in strips of leather and iron buckles near my groin waist. I looked up. My hands hurt from the death grip I had on the rope that connected my waist to the line. My eyes…
Oh hey, it’s 2021
I gotta be honest, it feels surreal to be in 2021. A brand spanking new year and yet it doesn’t feel that much different from the last 9 months. We left a year riddled with immense grief, trauma, uncertainty, fear, pivoting and hopelessness, but it’s…
Don’t leave San Francisco without doing these 5 things
San Franciso! Nobody told us that there would be hills, mini mountains that we would hike daily just to get to the nearest Whole Foods or corner shop from our hotel. But we were high on a plan to discover San Francisco, the city almost…
4 perfect hiking trails you must do in Palm Beach
Hiking trails…just the thought of it would make me shudder. Why would anyone subject themselves to the anonymity of the woods? The likelihood of befriending a bear, deer or worse, an alligator is not appealing. I choose life! Two and a half years ago Phil…
Cheers to 2020
I didn’t see the ball drop. There was no fanfare and confetti. No champagne poured. No kiss exchanged. I tried to hold out to see the clock tick towards 12:01 Who was I kidding? At 11:30 p.m. I stumbled into bed, only to be roused moments later…
