- 15 Dec 2023
It’s hard to tell stories about someone who means so much to you, who has left a massive mark on your life, and whose presence will be missed more than I can possibly describe. I decided the best way was to just start at the beginning, and write stories as I thought of them. This is the first in a series of posts about Mieke, starting at the beginning and roughly chronicling the past 13 years.
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- 23 Oct 2023
Well, my ambition to change the blog to a collection of posts about what I’m currently doing apparently didn’t pan out for me posting more often. Time to bring the blog back from the dead - some techno-necromancy.
What’s happened in the three years and change since the last post? A lot, actually. Ignoring the political landscape and all the nonsense from the COVID times is hard, and probably why I didn’t feel motivated to write anything about what I was doing with my personal life.
In 2020, my family and I relocated to small town coastal Oregon from the sprawling metropolis of Phoenix, AZ. Work had an opportunity, I took a leap. The Oregon coast is absolutely gorgeous - but we very quickly learned that it is much nicer to visit (briefly) than to live. Work was challenging in many new and unexpected ways (there’s too many trees here!). The three of us struggled to adapt, and probably due to our stubborness we made it work.
Surrounded by the beauty of the coast, we tried to make the most out of living there. On our 45 minute drives every week to the grocery store we’d pass dozens of new and exciting hiking trails - so we spent a lot of time hiking and exploring. We acquired a canoe, and took that out whenever we could.
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