Some of my notebooks
Well, it’s 2025. I feel like we might as well call it 1925, depending on your outlook in present day events. I skipped January due to feeling extremely...
Advent of the Christmas Letter
I never received a mailed, annual Christmas letter. For the unreceived, these are letters you receive from friends or family who send out a letter of how the...
Election Jitters
📍 Location: Bay Area, CA An anxious election day to you too. A follow-up from my last newsletter, Morgan and I closed on our home towards the end of this...
The Sisyphean Task of Writing
📍 Location: Bay Area, CA (in transit) I find it difficult to get started with writing. It is easier for me to give up on writing if I've lost a streak. The...
An Ode to the Seasonal Playlist
📍 Location: San Jose, CA I've been a fan of making seasonal music playlists for more than a decade. I started in iTunes, making new music and fitting them...
Summers Ablaze
Blue Skies This summer ramped up slowly, then became scorching. And that comes with a fire watch warning. 90F/32C isn’t what I would call ideal, especially...
June Bugs
If May was a happy time in our lives, then June erupted with a rude awakening. My wife and I caught COVID for the first time, which is surprising we didn’t...
A Surprise "May" Be Afoot
📍 Location: San Carlos, CA This month's newsletter is purposefully shorter because I got married this month! I decided to take off time from work and other...
April 2024 Updates
Switch Flipping 📍 Location: San Jose, CA The weather in the Bay Area during this season is like Mother Nature flipping the switch between cold and hot. She...
🔖 March 2024 Updates
Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.— Diane Ackerman Happy Springtime everyone! Yearly Theme For the past few years, I've been trying something new...
🗒️ February 2024 Updates
None of us know what will happen. Don’t spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that every day. That’s it.— Laurie...
Bye Bye Tinyletter
Hi everyone! It's been 5 years since the last email went out. In that time, I changed jobs, survived through a pandemic, and got engaged. I'm informing you...
Seven Degrees of Strangers: Sixth Degree
Introduction If you’ve been keeping up with me for this long, that means I have some loyal readers out there. Hi, it’s been a while. Haven’t spoken about...
Seven Degrees of Strangers: Fifth Degree
Dear Readers, It's been a while. I've been on vacation for the past three weeks enjoying the cold, desolate French country-side. It's been a gastronomic...
Seven Degrees of Strangers: Update
Dear Reader, I'm on vacation traveling through France and Spain. Sorry for the silence this past month. I didn't update the newsletter in time and did the...
Seven Degrees of Strangers: 4th Degree
Announcements A friend of mine reached out asking for donations for the Northern California wildfire relief fund. The fire wiped out his parent's home. I am...
Seven Degrees of Strangers: Third Degree
Introduction Welcome to the Jear Bear Letter's third letter of the series "Seven Degrees of Strangers". If you've just started reading this series, I...
Seven Degrees of Strangers: Second Degree
Introduction If you missed the newsletter last week, I started a new writing series. In this series, I interview one person a week, one degree of separation...
Seven Degrees of Strangers: First Degree
Introduction Welcome to the next installment of the Jear-Bear Letters. After a half year hiatus, we’re back with a new series called “Seven Degrees of...
Summer Update
?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Good summer to you, dear reader, I'm still here, and I haven't gone quiet. In fact, I want to give a quick update. I'm...