Hospitality is a calling.
When I was thirteen, my grandfather sat me down and told me something I've carried ever since. He was an inventor and an entrepreneur, and he'd studied hotel management. He believed hospitality was one of the few kinds of work where you could build something real just by taking genuine care of people.
I don't think either of us knew what that conversation would do. But it pointed me somewhere, and I've been walking in that direction ever since.
Along the way I met Brigitte, and together we raised two kids I couldn't be prouder of. Our son is a Marine now, and our daughter recently finished college, so these days it's the two of us and our rescue labradoodle, Theo, holding down the house. Family is where I first learned what it means to care for people, and it's still the truest version of it I know.
I run when I can, and Brigitte and I get out to see new places whenever there's a good reason to. It's really all the same thing to me: paying attention, and being grateful for wherever I happen to be.
