Life

Don’t Check Your Email 200 Times a Day

My friend Bill told me once, “Your inbox is full of stuff other people want you to work on.” The spirit of this principle is don’t be a slave to what other […]

Self-Respect and Dignity Are Easy to Ignore But Difficult to Regain

I have a friend who served a thirteen months sentence in Federal prison for an SEC (Security Exchange Commission) violation. Concurrent with the US market collapse of 2007, the US […]

Point Your Toes in a New direction

When I was in college I was certain about having a future career in the ministry. I didn’t want to be a pastor. I thought I’d work at a camp […]

Why My Daughter and I Are Restoring Our 1974 VW Joy Bus

It all started when my daughter Averi blurted out this dreamy statement, “When I graduate from high school, Maya and I are going to buy a VW Bus, road trip […]

MicroAdventures: Backyard Discoveries

It’s challenging to keep a camp stove lit at 11,742 feet between spindrifts of snow. I haven’t spent the night in a snow cave in ten years. I wasn’t sure […]

Adventure Titles Worth a Read

A couple of buddies recently asked me for a few recommendations of “epic stories”. Here is my list of favorite books and audio title that qualify as epic adventures, survival, resilience […]

The Art of Living Forward in the Direction You Want to Go

We celebrated Valentines Day dinner by eating in our 1974 VW JOY BUS (yes the Bus officially has been named, the JOY BUS) while parked inside our garage. We had another couple […]

Don’t Allow Any Quit in You!

“You’ve never quit anything before.” Those are the words my brother-in-law Timothy said to me that stopped me in my tracks while hiking the Boulder Flatirons. He said it as a […]

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

The way I put it to my friends There are two versions of every story. The one you tell on Facebook or at a cocktail party, and the one […]

Why I Write About More Than Just Work-Life Balance?

(Written in 2014) I never set out to write a blog. I told myself, that’s the last thing the world needs, another guy with an opinion. This month marks my third […]