Start Here

If you are new to Living at My Pace, you don't need to read everything. Start with these four. They are about a household, a slower body, a kitchen and the way travel fits that life.

Read them in this order, or skip to the one that is why you came.

1. One Roof, Three Generations

We live under one roof in Anthem, Arizona: my wife Joanna, my brother Eric, our two kids, my dad Mick, my mom Terrilyn, and me. More of our family lives down the road. This is where the site begins, because this is where the pace of our life is set.

Read "One Roof, Three Generations"

2. After the Stroke, Life Had to Slow Down

On March 14, 2016, I had a massive stroke. Some things never fully came back. This is what changed at home, not only on the trail.

Read "After the Stroke, Life Had to Slow Down"

3. What I Mean by Eating Well at Home

Eating well, in this house, is everyday work: shopping, cooking, sitting down together and using what we bought. We eat only organic. This piece is the door to the kitchen section my mom, Terrilyn Miller, will write in.

Read "What I Mean by Eating Well at Home"

4. The Pace I Travel Is the Pace I Live

The way I travel and the way I live at home are the same idea. This essay is about leaving, returning and keeping that pace in both places. The destination guides already live on my other sites; this one will send you there.

Read "The Pace I Travel Is the Pace I Live"

If you're here for travel

If trip planning is what you need, go straight to the sites written for it.

• For Arizona and other places closer to home, start at Travel at My Pace. Good first guides: the Phoenix Zoo, Sedona without the big hikes and Lake Powell the easy way.
• For Japan, start at Japan at My Pace. Good first guides: Walking the Kumano Kodo after a stroke, the cooling kit and Fushimi Inari at your own pace.

If you're here for food, or for Terrilyn's writing

Start with the eating essay above, then the Organic and Whole-Food Eating hub. Terrilyn's articles will be listed there, and on her author page, once her own write-up is in and she has approved it.

There are also practical guides already in that hub on reading labels, the produce aisle, the grocery run, kitchen rhythms, how we plan meals, what we bake, including the daily loaf, and cooking when energy is short. The household Recipes are in their own section, and the tools we cook with are in Tools I Reach for When I Cook.

What else to read

If you came for the recovery writing, start with the stroke essay above, then What Recovery Looks Like Years Later, Pilates, at Our Pace and Fatigue Is a Planning Problem, Not a Character Flaw. If heat is the immediate problem, read Heat, Balance, and a Slower Day and An Arizona House That Stays Livable in the Heat. The backyard is nice and sunny in the morning; that short piece is The Backyard in the Morning. For the household beyond the flagship, Kids in a House with a Grandparent is the piece about why we came home. For travel, The Day After We Get Home is how a trip actually ends.

If you want a shorter introduction to who writes this, read About.