Hey Look Ma, I Made It

Tuesday morning I was returning home from a run. From the start, everything about this run was a mental (and physical) battle. The last part of the run was an ever so gradual incline to the top of my street and then a right turn to finish with a flat 50-yard...

What to Do When the World Stops

Near where I live is a rather long stretch of unobstructed land; part of this land is owned by a sod farm and the remainder is the periphery of our local high school. On almost any given day you will find a surveyor-in-training there taking measurements. Apparently...

Global Warming?

Many of us have taken this time of quarantine to clean house. I know I have. Holy moly, it has been a lot of work but incredibly cathartic! As a result, I feel lighter, more peaceful, and I definitely feel proud of having accomplished some of these seemingly...

Friday’s Quote

“Someone else is happy with less than what you have.” ~ Unknown If we haven’t taken a moment every day, perhaps over our nightly meal, to express verbally and emphatically what we are grateful for during this pandemic, then it’s arguable that...

The Man in the Arena

In 1910, Teddy Roosevelt traveled via the Orient Express to delivery his powerful Citizenship in a Republic speech at the Sorbonne in Paris. The speech emphasized his belief that the success of a republic rested not on the brilliance of its citizens but on disciplined...