!Y feliz cumpleanos a mi amiga de la aventura! My last Mexico trip of 2022 brought me to the beautiful if touristy Cabo San Lucas, Mexico … where I got to swim with schools of fish and snorkel with a sea lion! I ate on of the best meals of my life at Manta, which…
My family is so effing awesome. There are 21 of us, plus my Handsome Humanitarian Warrior’s 3, in Austin for this holiday and I couldn’t be happier. I am so grateful for my cousins. They are all incredible humans. It turns out I haven’t seen some of them in over three years and while we’ve…
39 things I want to continue doing before my 39th birthday (NOT in order): loving skiing happy relationship supporting others enjoying max time outside so many friends neph neighbros saying no time with dad time with mama rest lifting the body I like moving through space neat house volleyball hot cowboy pool climbing dinner parties…
BUT FIRST, all the details about my art show in a couple of weeks! Mark your calendars now for Nov 12 & 13 to check out rad art and sip radder wine. And hang out with me. Which I am grateful for, obviously. The recognition for the third year in a row – as long…
I left my beloved job at HGS, where I had the incredible fortune of working for the absolute best boss I’ve ever had and working with the most incredible team I’ve ever built. We made big impact: big strides forward in brand consistency and social media, launched an awesome podcast, packaged our first product, built…
This post is a helpful explainer as to why I still blog, however many years (decades??) later. Thanks for reading thisislifeinaustin/aspen/youaremycelebrity/xlyssa/all the iterations this blog has been! Read Em’ History major here. Fascinated by the concept that North America is truly 11 nations shaped by their cultures and backgrounds. Rings very true. May need to…
I’m not sure I’ve ever needed a Friday so much. Last weekend in Las Vegas feels like a lifetime ago and it’s been a mere four days since I left the state of Nevada. The week has been super, super intense. There’s so much to do, so much still up in there. There’s so much…
“It is a delightful thing, while the great sea rages, to watch from the land another struggling with the waves: not because this is in itself a delight; yet it is a delight to watch calamities from which you feel yourself safe. So to look on a battle from some safe point of view. But nothing is more delightful than, from some serene stronghold of knowledge, to look down upon the wanderings and errors of other men, and their efforts after mere wealth and power, rather than knowledge and a quiet mind.” The first words of the opening of the second book of the Latin poet Lucretius, De Rerum Nalura. We found these words on the wall of a cantina called Tropico 56 in Merida, Mexico, where the driver we hired for the day on the recommendation of a man we met outside of a bathroom who said I look like I spoke English used to be the manager, en…
But I love Megs & P!! I planned to post this from the ridiculous beer garden they told me was laid back on a Friday afternoon in Vegas BUT alas I got swept away and only now at midnight in Vegas can I post … I came here for work and stayed for fun. I’ve…
It feels at once long and short, how is it already Friday and yet so much was jam-packed into these four days since I last published a feel good whateverday gratitude list. So, so grateful for my friends and framily and family. The people around me are just the best! Grateful for my PT at…