Anthem, Arizona · A household library

Eat well, live close, go anyway.

Everyday guides on eating well, sharing a house across generations, and keeping a slower pace after a stroke — written from a multi-generational house in Anthem, Arizona, where most mornings the bread machine and the coffee are set to a timer, and the house smells like fresh bread. Rhythms are how we make it work. Borrow what helps, and leave the rest.

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Where to begin

The household, the kitchen, the stroke, and how travel fits this life.

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What I Mean by Eating Well at Home

Eating well, in this house, is everyday work — not a cleanse, a challenge or a personality.

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One Roof, Three Generations

We live under one roof in Anthem, Arizona. This site starts at home, because that's where the pace of our life is actually set.

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The Pace I Travel Is the Pace I Live

The way I travel and the way I live at home are the same idea. My body sets the speed. Then we still go.

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After the Stroke, Life Had to Slow Down

On March 14, 2016, I had a massive stroke. This is the story I can tell about what changed, at home as much as on the trail.

Five sections

Eating, the house we share, travel, recovery, and the Arizona heat.

H1Organic and Whole-Food EatingThe kitchen, the grocery run, and eating well at a pace a full house can keep.H2Multi-Generational HomeLiving together under one roof: a shared kitchen, a little privacy, and ordinary systems.H3Travel at Our PaceHow travel fits everyday life. Destination guides live on my travel sites.H4Health and Recovery at Your Own PaceEveryday pacing after a stroke, at home as much as on the trail.H5Home in the HeatAn Arizona house in the heat, and the small habits that keep it livable.

From our kitchen

Fourteen recipes from this house, including the daily loaf, a dinner success, a blueberry muffin of my own, and a pumpkin muffin whose filling is still a friendly family debate. They come from a kitchen that eats only organic, and from evenings that are almost always home-cooked and candlelit.

The Daily Loaf

The loaf I bake every day in a Zojirushi BB-PDC20, on course 1 with a medium crust, set to a timer with the coffee.

Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie with Pecan Streusel

Sweet potato shepherd's pie with pecan streusel — a dinner success from October 2026.

Mini Blueberry Muffins with Pecan Streusel

Travis's version of mini blueberry muffins with pecan streusel: brown sugar, the creaming method, and frozen berries.

Gourmet Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffins

Pumpkin muffins with a cream cheese filling and a pumpkin-seed streusel — and a friendly family debate about when the filling goes in.

Candied Ginger & Ginger Syrup

Candied ginger and a small bottle of syrup, from the household cookbook.

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The travel writing already has a home

I also write about accessible family travel at Travel at My Pace, starting at home in Arizona. Our Japan trips have their own site, Japan at My Pace. This site talks about leaving, returning, and keeping a household that can do both, then sends you over.