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Have you ever noticed how school age kids skip along the sidewalk?
Do you notice how they run to the monkey bars or swings? Why? Answer: they can’t wait to enjoy themselves.
As an adult, would you rather skip into your life and run toward [...]
Your mother worried if you didn’t come home on time.
She fretted about the house “worried sick” that something happened to you. When you popped into the door, she said, “Where were you?
I was worried to death that something happened [...]
To sit around a campfire with a stick while you poke the glowing embers before you, may be one of the most tangible of all visible mysteries of the universe.
You stare into pulsing energy that feeds your soul.
Warmth comforts your sense of belonging [...]
If you work in a school, company, fast food joint, office or any other organization that forces you into contact with other people, you must deal with one or two characters that drive you nuts.
They may be arrogant, rude, aggressive or impudent.
They [...]
It’s been said that a “best friend” constitutes a miracle of the universe.
During your lifetime, you attach to certain individuals who “mesh” with you mentally, spiritually and physically. At first, you share the weather, sports [...]
Pursuing Happiness.
Thomas Jefferson said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the [...]
Americans living in big cities race through their days with gridlocked traffic, honking horns, cheeky taxi drivers, police sirens and jostling pedestrians racing toward their destinations.
At work, they juggle temperamental co-employees, deadlines [...]
In a Vermont parking lot on Lake Champlain, I stood astride my touring bicycle waiting for the ferry.
In the corner of the parking lot, a buckboard wagon stood silently in the shade. It featured a shortened harness on the front, along with [...]
You face multiple challenges in your life.
Thank goodness for that opportunity. Utopian worlds only exist in novels by the likes of Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. If you recall that brilliant story, a couple enjoyed unlimited sexual, [...]
“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because [...]
Ancient Greece featured Aristotle and Socrates.
It enthroned its mightiest warrior in Achilles who overthrew Troy with a Trojan horse. The Parthenon boasts the grandest architecture of the Greeks from 776 B.C.. But nothing beats the mystical [...]
Adventure is not always comfortable; however, it’s still adventure.
It’s not always safe, either. Whatever it is, adventure in the wilderness beats a weekend of sitting in a Barker Lounger watching inane television shows that you will [...]
A quote.
“Courage is one thing. A sense of purpose another. When you put them together in one human being, the world can be changed.”
John Brown
That first morning, I pedaled through heavy traffic for the beginning of my coast-to-coast [...]
Great moments.
Times like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, New Year’s, 4th of July and other special events present you with markers for new beginnings. So much of this culture wraps around traditions that revitalize your mind, heart and [...]
This Christmas
I turn my quill to a happy story about the endless joy and amazing experiences that await all of us wherever we may roam on this planet. From “Bikes in bloom” to “A moment frozen in time”, let us rejoice life and all [...]
The Spirit of Adventure.
Emerson said, “God laughs in flowers.” On a bicycle journey across America, you pedal through, along and past billions of flowers of every color, shape and description. God’s laughter speaks to your visual [...]
Adventure is all around us.
If the roar of a wave crashes beyond your campsite, you might call that adventure. When coyotes howl outside your tent–that may be adventure. When the wind rips at your tent pegs—that too, may be called [...]