Snow settling over an evergreen forest
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Living By The Seasons

The intentional decision to align life with place, purpose, and season — and the people you choose to spend it with.

The idea

For us, a year isn't one place. It's three.

We winter in the Pacific Northwest, spend our summers aboard a boat, and slip into Coastal Georgia for spring and fall. It started as logistics and became a philosophy: that life feels fuller when you let the season — the weather, the light, the rhythm of a place — set the pace, instead of forcing the same pace onto every month of the year.

This is the most personal corner of the site — part journal, part field notes. Travel, nature, wellness, food, and the small disciplines of intentional living, gathered as we go.

Winter in the Pacific Northwest
Winter — The Pacific Northwest

The Season of Roots

Winter is for staying put. Short days, tall trees, woodsmoke and rain on the windows — the Pacific Northwest in the cold months teaches you to find the luxury in stillness. This is when the businesses get their planning, the family gets its slow mornings, and the year gets its intentions.

It's the season I most associate with hospitality: a full house, a warm kitchen, and the quiet certainty that there's nowhere anyone needs to be.

Summer aboard a wooden sailboat
Summer — Aboard a Boat

The Season of Movement

Come summer, home unties from the dock. Life aboard a boat strips things down to what fits and what matters — fewer rooms, more horizon, and a daily reminder that freedom is mostly a function of how little you actually need.

The boys learn things at sea you can't teach on land. I get my best thinking done between anchorages, where the only schedule is the tide.

Golden salt marsh on the Coastal Georgia shore
Spring & Fall — Coastal Georgia

The Season of Belonging

The shoulder seasons belong to the coast. Warm light, salt marsh, oak and Spanish moss — Coastal Georgia is where the pace softens and the table gets longer. Spring for beginnings, fall for gratitude, and both for the kind of community that makes a place feel like yours.

It's the clearest proof of the whole idea: that belonging isn't a single address. It's a practice you carry from season to season.

What you'll find here

Travel · Nature · Wellness · Food & Nutrition · Intentional Living

The newsletter

Seasonal letters from wherever we've dropped anchor — the Northwest, the water, or the Georgia coast — on the small art of living well.