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(the image on the left is from our motorcycle trip out west last summer, that was the first place we stopped for lunch…)

The Nutcrackers are back in person!

May 15, 2022 By

The last year has proven to be another challenging one for us all but the increased opportunities to gather safely in person feel like much needed medicine and food for the soul. Next Saturday, for the first time in 2 years, we will be riding to raise funds for germ cell tumor research at MSK. […]

Nutcrackers Ride Again

May 15, 2021 By

What a year. Personally, I have been both overwhelmed by the intensity, the disruption and the grief and, at the same time, have been in awe of acts of compassion and moments of connectedness, healing and growth. On many levels these juxtaposed feelings remind me of the year I was sick. I remain so deeply […]

Riding for Survival

March 6, 2020 By

I am writing after just moving back to Pawling, NY from Buenos Aires, Argentina where we spent a year living and our final 3 weeks camping in Patagonia (pic below at El Chaltén). We drove 2,000 miles to the end of the southernmost road in the world. I was back in NY in December of […]

Celebrating 5 Years & Riding with the Nutcrackers

February 24, 2019 By

When my family and I sat down for dinner last night my daughter, Juniper, asked me why I was crying. “Because I am so happy and grateful we are all here,” I told her. It was our first meal in our new house in Buenos Aires where we are living for a year and as […]

A Very Happy New Year

December 31, 2017 By

I am at my wife’s childhood home in Minnesota watching the sun drop slowly behind the bare trees for the last time in 2017.  As I reflect on the year during this rare moment of quiet (one daughter is napping, the other playing with her grandmother) I am overwhelmed again with gratitude.  I think of […]