Tag: monthly review

October is easily one of my favorite months of the year. I love the fall, and the weather in Scotland tends to be the perfect mix of stormy and beautiful (fall and spring are the best seasons here). Read on for other updates, images, and miscellany from the month.

September started with a hiking adventure to Aonach Eagach, Lost Valley, and Bidean nam Bian, and continued with a daddy-daughter date until fall finally arrived, and we all seemed to hunker down a bit and eat udon noodles and have a taco night. I also somehow found some time to make a few mini-paintings while…

August is long gone, and it’s feeling like fall already (my favorite time of year, I’m kind of excited honestly). Last month we went to Edinburgh, I saw my favorite movie of the year, we got our landscaping done, got rid of the trampoline, I went hiking, and the kids had their first day of…

Unlike previous months this year, and compared to most standards, my July was gloriously unproductive. I visited the States. I went swimming 14 days in a row. I worked some. I played some. I could feel the urge to do more in the back of my head. I tried my best to relax and go…

“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter” Billy Connolly June highlights included mostly great weather in Scotland which equated to two full days of hiking: Beinn Narnain and The Cobbler and Ben Lomond. I also started the month in Prague, which is one of my new favorite cities. Last month I said I’d…

May highlights include hiking Ben Venue, volunteering at my kid’s school running club, celebrating my daughter Vivian’s birthday (she had quite a birthday list), re-starting The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, reading The Wayfinders, and changing my morning schedule. The month felt like it flew by, and I didn’t fit in any drawing,…

April had its share of highs and lows. The family and I were fortunate enough to begin the month with a much-anticipated, much-needed vacation in Gran Canaria. Then we all got sick and kind of muddled through the second week and watched movies (Everything Everywhere All At Once, Mario, and Puss in Boots), and I…

March highlights: got up into the hills for the first time in several months, got new running shoes and thought a lot about how much I ran since I started wearing them, I grew a batch of shitake mushrooms and cooked them up, I reflected on what the coaching experience has meant and how much…