Journalled on Thursday, 27th of March 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. It is Thursday, and I am trying to let go. Let go! How can two little words carry so […]
Let Go | Forty Years in Brazil
Blue Skies, Buried Guilt | A Sunday in Santo Cristo
Journalled on Sunday, 27th of July 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26 degrees, hot, sunny and perfect blue sky. It is Sunday, and Yasmin is still with me. She will head back to her mother’s this afternoon, […]
Swimming, Skipping and the Choices We Make
Journalled on Friday, 20th of February 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 30 degrees, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. It is Friday, exactly one week since my tooth extraction, and today I take the last of the medicine. […]
Heat, Coffee, Cake and Chopp in Leblon
Journalled on Friday, 10th of January 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot and overcast. We’re back home in Rio after three days in Paraty, the historic town about 200 km down the coast. It wasn’t […]
A Productive Tuesday | Notes on Time, Truth, and Doing the Work
Journalled on Tuesday, 10th of June 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 21 degrees, warm, and overcast. Today is Tuesday, and it’s been a productive day. I journaled twice, worked on four separate videos, and got through my […]
Confidence, Arrogance, and Knowing Yourself
Journalled on Friday, 22 August 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, sunny and blue sky. I think I was taught, from a young age, to put myself second, to forget my own needs in the […]
Consistency | Practice | Discipline
Journalled on Friday, 22 August 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, sunny and blue sky. It’s Friday, the end of the week. I’m a little tired, and honestly, my feelings are mixed right now. But […]
When Guidance Becomes Letting Go and a Parent’s Uncertainty
Journalled on Monday, 25 May 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 24 degrees, warm and overcast. Parenthood does not become simpler when a child reaches adulthood. The questions change, but the uncertainty remains: when should we give guidance, […]
ENEM Exam Day in Rio | A Sunday Walk from Botafogo to Glória Market
Journalled on Sunday, 16 November 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. It is Sunday, and I will take Yasmin to her ENEM exam. ENEM is a national Brazilian exam for all […]
A Day Full of Nothing
Journalled on Thursday, 12 February 2026 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 33 degrees, very hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. There are two kinds of nothing. There is the good kind, the nothing you choose: doing nothing, going nowhere, […]