Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Picture your greatest fear. Then imagine my blog coming to your email every Wednesday for the rest of your life… Really mitigates that first concern, doesn’t it? In lieu of last week’s post, I received some disappointed feedback that the installment had no “psychophilosophy”…
Blood is really warm, it’s like drinking hot chocolate but with more screaming. — Ryan Mecum With the good weather, I figure camping season is here already. So for today’s post, I’m going to reimagine one of my favorite campfire stories: Behind the wheel of his new, 1995 Ford pickup, Tanner’s eyelids felt weighty. Music….
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. – Author Unknown This morning, before 9:00am, I was shaky with nervousness. And no, that nervousness wasn’t about the questionable Mediterranean food I ate last night. (Though I still have some lingering concerns about that.) My anxiety, actually, came from the fact that in one hour I…
Nearly all men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln. Camping in the woods with friends is fun. Camping on a nest of your dirty clothes in the airport is not. But thanks to Mother Nature’s sudden fascination with lightning, I got to experience the…
Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better. – Henry David Thoreau There really is nothing like returning to your childhood home. Or in my case, returning to the place I lived last year as a semi-grown adult. And after spending the last…
If you believe everything you read, better not read. — Japanese Proverb Spring, how glorious thou art. Birds all a flutter. Trees of blooming pink. Warmth and breeze and gaiety and love. But behind every flitting bird is an animal ready to poop on your car. And all those blossoming trees? Just little white flowers…