Lisbon → Coimbra → Porto | November 15–27, 2026 Life has thrown me a few curveballs lately. My October travel plans changed. And changed again. And eventually disappeared altogether. Then there was April. I had planned another beautiful European adventure, but life changed, and I canceled it. Then, as life sometimes does, it changed again—and it turned out I could have kept those plans after all. But that's okay. Things change. Life does what life does. And sometimes the love

And when it does, keep living. Today, artificial intelligence is changing our world at a breathtaking pace. Tomorrow it will be something else. But perhaps we give technology too much credit for introducing us to change. Life has been doing that forever. Relationships. Heartbreak. Betrayal. Disappointment. Joy. Illness. Recovery. Birth. Death. Falling in love. Falling out of love. Becoming a parent. Losing a parent. Discovering something about another person that changes ever

You can’t exhale before you have inhaled. It’s impossible. Perhaps that’s why I’ve come to believe the same is true of living. There is something almost sacred about stepping outside, lifting your face toward the warmth of the sun, and closing your eyes for just a moment. It isn’t simply that the sunshine feels nice. It’s an experience. It’s an emotion. It’s a place. A place that quietly reminds us we belong to something much bigger than ourselves. When I walk outside each ev