by Dave Ursillo | Dec 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
I WILL REMEMBER 2019 as the year that I learned to love again. 2019 is the year that I fell in love with the city of Paris. It was the year that I fell in love with trying 100 new things in 100 days. It was the year that I fell in love with baking — a whim of last...
by Dave Ursillo | Dec 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear friend, A few years ago when the calendar flipped from 2010 to 2011, I thought I was doing my best, and trying my hardest, and fully living my truth. I thought that I was free and that I was on the verge of making some real change in the world. I had been...
by Dave Ursillo | Nov 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
When we last left off in our story, I was walking through the door of someone’s home in Arlington, Virginia to attend a White House office reunion party. Because more than 11 years had passed since I had worked at the Office on Environmental Quality, I worried...
by Dave Ursillo | Oct 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the summer of 2008, I was an intern at an Office of the White House in Washington D.C. called the Council on Environmental Quality. CEQ’s offices are located across the street from the White House inside a Secret Service secured square on a road called Jackson...
by Dave Ursillo | Sep 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Don’t use that word!” a friend, who I hadn’t seen in months, reflexively snapped back. “If you say ‘debt’,” she continued, “The Universe hears it and gives exactly that back to you.” “Yeah, you’re right,” I somewhat-snarkily acknowledged, “I should really call it my...
by Dave Ursillo | Sep 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had a frustrating relationship to boredom. When I was young, minor fits of boredom would set in and drive me suddenly-stir-crazy. “I’m so boredddddd,” I would complain to anyone within earshot, usually my mom. I would resort to opening our...
