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Eight tips to become a better skier this winter
Believe it or not, I drafted this post in April. And I’ve been sitting on it since then. I think on some level I was self-conscious about publishing much because I was worried that doing a lot of personal writing would make it look like I was distracted from my full-time job in advertising. Well, surprise — I’m now unemployed. It’s a pretty brutal time in the ad industry as it contends with economic uncertainty, the threat of AI, and more, so my professional future is more than a bit unclear. I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching over the past few weeks, including whether it’s potentially po
Sep 3, 2025
The Presidential Fitness Test isn't what the youth sports crisis needs
Well, I’ve been mulling a return to Substack and have about six drafts in the hopper, but then this news story came along. So you’re getting this one. I get that it’s a little bit off topic for a Substack that was originally about messing around in the woods (a topic that got tougher to write about when I moved out of the woods) but it’s enough of a parallel subject that I think it counts. Hope you like it, and fingers crossed that I’ll be popping in here more often now. Hey, thanks for reading! If you subscribe I promise I won’t spam you. — C A boat in the Alumni Eights event at the Head of t
Aug 8, 2025
The Firewood 014: Our hero, Hank the Tank
Hello, friends. It’s been almost two years since I wrote anything here, and in fact, has been just about as long since I wrote anything “for fun.” At a certain point, I realized that this was not just laziness or getting older, but probably kind of a major mental health issue. I’ve been dealing with burnout and debilitating anxiety for longer than I can estimate, and so over the past few months, treating it has become a priority. I’ll have more to say about that later, but it’s been an interesting journey so far (I wrote something a bit more businessy about it on LinkedIn) . I’d been making a
Aug 9, 2023