The Book Of Bob

Calm Is Built, Not Found

Calm Is Built, Not Found

Bob learned the Five P’s by screwing it up in the wild. Cold hands. Wrong call. Long walk back with too much time to think about how easily it all...

Calm Is Built, Not Found

Bob learned the Five P’s by screwing it up in the wild. Cold hands. Wrong call. Long walk back with too much time to think about how easily it all...

Wanna Get Wild?

Wanna Get Wild?

Bob has noticed that whenever he mentions camping, people react like he’s announced a temporary descent into chaos. They use phrases like “brave,” “hardcore,” or the ever-popular “I could never...

Wanna Get Wild?

Bob has noticed that whenever he mentions camping, people react like he’s announced a temporary descent into chaos. They use phrases like “brave,” “hardcore,” or the ever-popular “I could never...

The Callous Truth

The Callous Truth

There’s a certain kind of trust that doesn’t come from confidence, credentials, or clever words. It comes from evidence. Quiet evidence. The kind you notice without being told. Calloused hands...

The Callous Truth

There’s a certain kind of trust that doesn’t come from confidence, credentials, or clever words. It comes from evidence. Quiet evidence. The kind you notice without being told. Calloused hands...

Not Too Tight, Not Too Loose

Not Too Tight, Not Too Loose

There’s a particular look people get in early January. It’s the look of someone who has decided that this year will be different. Salads are aggressively green. Gym shoes appear...

Not Too Tight, Not Too Loose

There’s a particular look people get in early January. It’s the look of someone who has decided that this year will be different. Salads are aggressively green. Gym shoes appear...

Let the Branch Bend

Let the Branch Bend

Bob worries. Not in a dramatic, clutch-the-chest kind of way, but in that quiet, ever-present hum that lives just behind the ribs once you become a parent. It switches on...

Let the Branch Bend

Bob worries. Not in a dramatic, clutch-the-chest kind of way, but in that quiet, ever-present hum that lives just behind the ribs once you become a parent. It switches on...

Back to Work, Slowly

Back to Work, Slowly

There’s a strange stretch of days every year where time forgets what it’s for. The week between Christmas and New Year’s doesn’t feel like vacation, and it definitely doesn’t feel...

Back to Work, Slowly

There’s a strange stretch of days every year where time forgets what it’s for. The week between Christmas and New Year’s doesn’t feel like vacation, and it definitely doesn’t feel...