Dare to Downsize
As I walked toward the train station to meet my wife on her way home from work I enjoyed the unseasonably warm March day until a depressing thought hit me: we probably needed to spend the evening doing yard work. Then I remembered—I no longer had a house—I no longer had a yard requiring my […]
Willing to be Weird
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.” – Vince Lombardi To do something unique or daring sometimes requires being labeled—weird. That’s certainly happened to Laurie and I in our preparations to hike the Camino de Santiago across Spain. We’re big believers in trying to replicate real conditions during training. That means wearing […]
Preparing for Success
When it comes to preparing, we are so not Cheryl Strayed. Cheryl is the woman whose personal struggle was portrayed in the movie Wild starring Reese Whiterspoon. When Cheryl was a senior in college her mother died suddenly of lung cancer. Cheryl eventually descended into a life of drug use and depravity. To her credit […]
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