Baking Bread
When the world is open and bank accounts are swollen and passports have fresh pages, boredom is cured beyond our walls. We find stimulati...
The World Ajar
There was a time in my life when I traveled so much that, when I bumped into friends at random places around the globe, it barely got my ...
Awe Yeah
Last week a friend of mine told me about “The Science of Awe”, and how it helped him understand his obsession with surfing big waves. So ...
Love To Burst Your Bubble
Love To Burst Your Bubble We all live in bubbles — invisible cocoons where everything is safe, happy and comfortable.In my last postcar...
The Bleached Blindfold
In the totality of all possible knowledge there are three categories:What you know.What you know you don’t know.What you don’t know you d...
Scratching The Itch
For the past decade if Db’s content director, Marcus Olsson, wasn’t on the road, he was planning his next trip. Then Covid hit and his wi...
Run For It
“It’s been so nice to slow down,” everyone said while looking for a pandemic silver lining. The sentiment’s become more ubiquitous than b...
Summer Stamp
Last Saturday was the type of beach day I associate with childhood. We made sandwiches in an assembly line. Packed the coolers tight. Sen...
Follow The Leaper
Long before I started at Douchebags I discovered Benjamin Forthun on Instagram. I started following him. I liked what he posted and so In...
My summer top-10
I wanted to share a list of my 10 favorite things about summer.1. Warm nights2. Ocean water drying into a salty crust on my eyebrows3. Ba...
Offshore Thunder
Remember thunderstorms as a kid? You’d see the lightning flash through the windows and excitedly start extending your fingers one by one....
Out Of Office Reply
I am historically bad at vacations. It used to be because I preferred “traveling” to “vacationing,” a pretentious distinction that backe...
Screen Time Bomb
This is not a prescription, and I feel silly even writing it, as I’m not qualified to offer advice. But there are two things I’ve done r...
I Will Always Fall
My summer fall out The word “fall” is usually bad. You never want to fall down, fall behind, fall short or be the fall guy. Sometimes, i...