A bit more about me

I’ve spent most of my life scanning the horizon in one way or another - whether literally crossing oceans as a travel writer, learning to sink or swim as an adoptive dad, or navigating existential cross-currents with the many courageous people take my online midlife course or come to me for coaching.

My books are all experiments in drift of one kind of another. Eight Men and a Duck was a hare-brained 2500-mile voyage to Easter Island on a slowly-sinking boat made of reeds, while Adrift in Caledonia tested the serendipitous art of boat-hitching around the country I’m proud to call home. Most recently, in Urban Worrier, I burned out and decided to traverse the world in search of experts in the lost art of letting go.

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