When I compiled the 2020 Christmas mixtape, I did so with an eye toward highlighting the year’s biggest stories, namely the pandemic and...

As a good friend recently stated in her family Christmas card: 2020, y’all. None of us saw this pivotal year playing out the way it did....

Another birthday, another mixtape.

The pop-culture savvy among you might recognize this December’s nod to the Marvel Universe’s Guardians of the Galaxy. RayRay and I took...

For the sixteenth time, I’ve arranged a few tunes for RayRay’s birthday. Hard to believe I’ve done this sixteen times – and hard to...

It's that time of year again, friends: the Christmas playlist for Ray Ray. As much as moving to El Salvador has been a noteworthy change...

Ray Ray and I are happy to (publicly) announce we are expecting our first child in July! We’re obviously overjoyed – if not slightly...

The title sums it up nicely. This has been a tough year for many of us. On top of any other tribulations and tests the year has thrown...

Way behind on Ray Ray's birthday mixtape this year. It was due back in March but the pressures of finishing a Quantitative Methods...

Christmas is here, friends, and with it the inter-week break as we close out 2016 and head into 2017. In keeping with tradition, I want...

To kick off my wife’s next trip around the sun, the annual birthday mixtape. 30-For-30 is the title this year and I’ve chosen one top-100...

Before we close out 2015, I want to share the latest installment of the mixtape series. The title was inspired by our Thanksgiving visit...

In what has become an annual tradition, I am happy to share this year’s birthday mixtape I made for Ray Ray.​ ​Recall I closed out last...

It is time to close out 2014, a year that has been very good to us in our corner of the universe. We started the year with our Caribbean...

In preparing for our wedding, we assembled little goodie bags for folks, especially those traveling from afar and staying at local...

Another Ray Ray Birthday. Another mixtape. We’re on our fifth installment in this series and I’ve been told this is Ray Ray’s favorite...

It’s Christmas in the islands. Feliz Navidad from the Dominican Republic! Our ex-pat home is celebrating Orphan Christmas with a few...

Once is an occurrence. Twice is a trend. Three times is proof. This is the third in our mixtape series, and the first I’ve assembled...

Remember how I made Ray Ray a mixtape back in March for her birthday? Yeah, she loved it. So, if it ain’t broke, it ain’t broke. She...

You read that correctly. Mixtape. It’s a subtle art, as John Cusack taught in “High Fidelity.” There are, in fact, a lot of rules....