A surfing and creative writing blog dedicated to finding my stoke.
I thought I would kill it at snowboarding. I definitely did not. But I also remembered something I'd forgotten I already knew, and once I started living it everything else fell into place. Read about how in this new post. Image credit to @mkphotos808 on Instagram <3
It's not often you get to participate in a world-history moment. This essay is a reflection on legacy, surfing, humanity, and the impact of Eddie Aikau on the surfing community.
2022 is just around the corner...and so is a massive pivot in my business! On January 1, 2022, keep an eye out for Beach Bum Creative, my new copywriting, brand development, web design, and content marketing business services. I can't wait for you to check it out 🙂 Image Credit: catwalk studios
A poem about mostly nothing, but also the small things. Where we need to listen harder, and speak more softly.
It's so easy for us to see when we are using the wrong board. It's so easy for us to see what needs to change or what we need to do differently in surfing, but in the rest of our lives we're equally quick to blame ourselves. What if you have always perfectly fit life all along, but you just needed to start believing it?
There's always that one person in the line-up with a smile on their faces, and the one with a scowl. I realize in the line-up, and in life, you can choose to be whichever person in the lineup. At the end of the day, we're all in the ocean of life, but how we ride the waves is up to us.
Movement and moving, stillness and chaos-the metaphor can be too simple, but life also can be too.
It's taken me practically a year to write this post again. I wanted to write the perfect post. Then I realized I would never write anything thinking like that. Read about why you need to do, instead of doing your best.
The monotony of staying at home can be tough. Spending too much time on our phones is especially difficult. Read 4 ways to balance out the repetition of the New Normal or boost your Work From Home routine.
