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It’s time for a column.
I’ve been busy with projects and other people’s lives, and somewhere along the way, my column got pushed to the side. But it’s been too long.
I’m working on a book right now, and I actually had to step away from it for a few days. I’ve learned that I write in surges. I go all in, and then I need to pull back — because if I don’t, what comes out starts to feel forced. Or worse, just not very good.
The book is a cookbook, but it’s really more than that. It’s my story told through food — through a version of life that feels further and further away the more everything changes.
Food has always been a big part of my life. It’s one of the ways I remember things. It’s how I connect. And this project is rooted in cooking from home — which, for me, means Guam. There aren’t many books like this out there. I actually went looking for one last year as a Christmas gift for my mother-in-law and couldn’t find anything that felt right or even recently published.
So I thought — why not just write it myself?
Working on it has made me think a lot about what life was like growing up. It feels, in a way, like a contained nugget in time. Because everything since then has changed so quickly.
I used to talk about this when I was deep into marketing — that 2007 was a turning point. That was the year the first iPhone came out. And whether we realized it at the time or not, everything shifted.
When I was growing up, I went through music on tape, 8-tracks, vinyl, cassette tapes, CDs — and then digital. That evolution happened in less than 60 years. My sons don’t know cassette tapes or CDs. Their lives have been digital for as long as they can remember.
And now we’re in the middle of another shift — with AI. Maybe the biggest one yet.
It seems to either excite people or completely freeze them. I understand why. It’s new. It’s big. It feels like something that could change everything again.
A lot of people worry that AI is going to make creativity — or even themselves — irrelevant. I don’t see it that way. Not even close.
Creativity belongs to people. To our hearts, our minds, our experiences. AI is just a tool. It can expand what we do, but it can’t replace where it comes from.
As for becoming irrelevant — I think that’s a choice. The smartphone could have made you irrelevant, too. It all comes down to how you respond to change and what you decide to do with it.
I won’t pretend I love change.
But I’m also not afraid of it.
I’ve gone through it too many times in my life — adapting to it, implementing it, leading through it. At this point, I see it as an opportunity. A chance to explore something new.
That said, I understand why people fear it. Especially when it threatens something that feels central to who you are. There’s always going to be some fear of the unknown.
The question is what you do next.
For me, I get restless when things stay the same for too long. I get antsy. I need to shake things up — not in a way that disrupts the people I care about, but in a way that pushes my creativity.
Because that’s where the ideas are.
And in a world that keeps changing faster than we can keep up, the only real risk isn’t the change — it’s choosing not to move with it.
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