Recently, I celebrated a milestone birthday.   At a certain point, the years seem to come faster and faster than ever […]

I took three years of Spanish in high school, all to no effect.  Joan and I visited Spain a few […]

I am committing to you, dear reader, to always be the voice behind these messages.  However flawed that voice may […]

My image of the sixties from my childhood (in the 1960s) was that of an old man with an Afghan […]

Would you pay to eat dinner with strangers?  At first blush, this idea seems a bit absurd.  Why would anyone […]

My wife and I recently became empty nesters after a fairly lengthy, but deeply enjoyable, run.  We find ourselves in […]

In the last few weeks, I have had several questions from people I know regarding cold plunges.  Two of those […]

I have known for a while that having a proper attitude of gratitude sets us up for a positive perspective […]

Most of us keep track of our age chronologically.  It makes sense.  We are born on a certain day and […]

He decided the night before that he was not going to play golf in the morning.  It didn’t seem interesting.  […]

The face that we normally present to the world is our best one.  Social media makes this easy, and most […]

Continuing from last week about beach walks and rock collecting, some of the rocks that spark joy for me are […]

For the past week or so, I have been shifting my daily walks to a lesser-known Leland beach called “North […]