Grabbing the Tail of a Dream I believe that there is a life dream each of us has, especially ones that started when we were kids. Some of us wanted to be an astronaut; some wanted to fly like a bird. Others dreamed about baseball as a profession. S...

Coloring Without Lines I look back at my life and realize that I learned all that I would ever need to know about people in first grade art class. There seemed to be two groups of kids back then. The first were those who liked safety and security, who...

Whining About The Way Back from another backpack trip, and feeling very humbled. We do so much backpacking that I think I was getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. I think I might have been getting to the point of maybe being even a little co...

Loved Whether I Like it or Not I grew up in the Midwest on a farm. My family consisted of mom and dad and my brother and me. I was the oldest, born to a mom who liked to over achieve. She really was and is a remarkable woman. The problem was that I ...

Challenging My Demand for Comfort I like to be comfortable. I really like it. I like fast food because I don’t have to wait very long. I like drive-thru banking because I don’t have to get out of my car. I like microwaves because they heat things ...

Lightening the Load of Life Some guys are into sports, some into computers, some live to golf. I’m afraid that I can, at best, name maybe a handful of major league teams, identify a computer two out of three times, and have never golfed. But I do ha...

How to Fix Everything in Your Life in 5 Easy Steps If you opened this article hoping to find 5 easy steps to fix everything in your life, it might be time to check out your life goals. Let’s be realistic for a moment. Do you really think that all th...

Into the Wilderness…Again One of my favorite quotes comes from author Ray Bradbury in his book Fahrenheit 451. “My grandfather ….hoped that some day our cities would open up more and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to rem...