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Learn the Guitar as a Busy Adult: 22 Practical Tips Preface I started playing the guitar when I was 33 years old to fulfill a lifelong dream. The journey started when I walked into Guitar Center and bought a $150 Yamaha acoustic guitar - along with a...
Big Waves and Blank Pages: Chosen Battles of a Surf Writer Why I surf The reasons why I surf go back to when I was a kid. I am from San Diego, and I am a product of my environment as much as anyone else is. As far as I can remember, my...
A Big Career Pivot Why I am leaving the legal industry after 20 years to pursue a different career. My Legal Career I passed the California Bar Exam in 2009 - so if you want to count that as the beginning of my legal career, I have been in the...
Reflecting on Model Citizen: The Book I Didn't Publish I wrote a book I never published and probably never will. At the time, I considered it a failure. But that book wasn't meant to make me famous. It wasn't meant to launch me into the stratosphere with Mark Twain...
My 3rd Muay Thai Fight (January 19, 2014) I remember going into this fight and thinking I was going to die. I was still working full-time as a lawyer. "Stressed'' and ''burned out'' don't even begin to describe how I felt. I felt like I...
April 3, 2023 Why I Did An Ayahuasca Ceremony I did my first Ayahuasca ceremony over the weekend. It's something that I've been interested in trying for years, and I always said, ''I'll do it when the time is right,'' or when I have the right opportunity. I had the...