Life's Learnings

They say lightning never strikes twice.  Maybe that explains why my Uncle Norm's been struck four  times.  There was the first time, whe...

When one slacks, one usually suffers.  It makes sense - if you are concert pianist but never practice you will, likely, suffer from embarras...

In lazy, or uninspired, moments, this seems to be the question de rigueur for Liz and I.  After a morning of mini-golf and an afternoon of r...

In my graduate training to become a teacher, we were drilled about the importance of reflection.  I know the value of it (both personally ...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it h...

This past Saturday, I ran around a 3.17 mile sidewalk loop.  For 39 miles.  Boring?  Mindless?  Awful?   Nothing could be further from the t...

Last week, when visiting my family in Vermont, my older son attended a morning soccer camp with his cousins.  He did great - playing in the ...