PeopleAugust 24, 20262 min read
Two People With Clipboards, 1990
We both showed up to work in Huntington Beach that year and never quite left. A story about how a working life becomes a shared one.
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PeopleAugust 17, 20262 min read
What Thirty-Eight Years of Showing Up Teaches You About People
Not wisdom, exactly. More like a set of small corrections you make to your assumptions, one house at a time.
PlacesAugust 10, 20262 min read
Huntington Harbour Is Not a Neighborhood. It's a Habit.
What happens to a place when the water is a street, the boats are neighbors, and everyone waves whether or not they know you.
HomeAugust 3, 20262 min read
Raising Two Daughters Inside a Postcard
Coastal Orange County looks like a vacation. Living a whole family life here is something else — better and stranger.
WorkJuly 27, 20262 min read
A Thousand Doorways: What Door-Knocking Taught Us About Listening
The least glamorous part of this job turned out to be the best education in human beings either of us ever got.
WorkJuly 20, 20262 min read
The Slowest Possible Way to Build a Business
Repeat and referral is not a marketing strategy. It's what happens when you can't get away from your own reputation — and don't want to.
HomeJuly 13, 20262 min read
Nobody Has Ever Cried About Square Footage
Thirty-eight years of walking through other people's houses, and the thing that moves people is never the thing in the listing.
CommunityJuly 6, 20262 min read
You Can Read a Town by What It Volunteers For
La Casa. Anglers of Huntington Harbour. Robyne's Nest. Stars and Stripes. Surfrider. Flying Dutchman. The Yacht Club. A list is a portrait.