Now that I have over 1000 Steem Power, I feel like I have enough influence to start a contest! I’m picking a topic that is near to my heart, since it incorporates many of my biggest loves: reading,

My Steemian friends! Finally it's about time again: The MyPictureSunday series is back and so is the MyPictureDay photography challenge! Never heard of it? Don't worry at the end of this post you will

For 9 months out of the year, rain is a nearly daily fact of life here around Seattle. You can either spend all that time trying to avoid it, or you can embrace it. As an avid walker, I try to do the latter.

The birth of Adventure Reading came late in the summer of 2013 following a breakup. I was rediscovering all the delights of doing things alone, and my favorite among these were long walks and solo hikes

Japanese shabu-shabu (which translates to swish-swish) is similar to Chinese hot pot. Instead of a communal bowl in the middle of the table, each person has their own soup bowl. Thinly sliced meat and

In December 2014, shortly after the launch of the product I worked on, I received a crazy work email inviting me to go to New York for the first opening ceremony of the year at Nasdaq. The other people

My hundredth day of vlogging snuck up on me, so I didn't plan an appropriate celebration! I would have gone to a restaurant, but after being in Montana where we went to 5 restaurants in less than 2 weeks

My parents were more or less along for the ride on the Asturias part of our Spain trip, since it’s not even mentioned in their Rick Steves “bible” that they read cover-to-cover. This meant one of my biggest

After nearly 6 months on this platform, I wanted to sit down and better define my goals here. I dedicate around 2 hours every day to creating and curating content, so it's time I get focused. I won't be

We're back in Redmond for the time being! Gotta say, the descent on that little airplane was one of the most painful in my life, with the pressure on my eardrums causing stabbing pain all the way down

I almost always get sick over the holidays - between plane rides and being in close quarters with a ton of other people during bad weather, it seems inevitable. Fortunately, this is just a cold + skin

WELCOME TO OUR BIG SKY MONTANA NEW YEAR! Big Sky is the largest ski resort in the United States. It's an hour's drive north of Yellowstone National Park and 3 hours from Billings where Nash grew up. His

Do you wonder how people in other countries celebrate the new year? Are you curious about the traditions and rituals for receiving the year other Steemians have? Would you like to see the food and drinks

Crashing a Wedding At dinner, we found out that a friend's wife's brother was having his wedding reception in the same building. Total happenstance. Instead of barging in uninvited, Dave sent a message

The video games continued today with one of the best co-op games I've played, "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes". I first saw it in the IndieCade at PAX. One person puts on a VR helmet, where

On this day I probably set a personal record high for number of hours of video games played in a single day. (And I didn't film ANY of it!) We played Divinity 2 for a few hours in the morning and then

Today we undertook the annual migration from Billings to Big Sky in Montana. Nash's dad drove. Montana has the third lowest population density of all the United States, so there's a lot of open snow-covered

Do you ever feel like the day after a holiday is always a little... dead? After all the highs of Christmas, energy levels were pretty low around the house. We lounged around, played games, read, cleaned

What a bountiful Christmas! This was the first one I've spent apart from my own family. Previously, Nash and I spent Christmas in California and New Year's in Montana, but that travel between the two is

Imagine my surprise when we stepped outside to catch the bus and everything was covered in snow! It was still coming down in big, wet, fluffy flakes. Since we've been away for so much of the winters, this