This is the fourth post in my blog series about recharging and resetting your life, what I call retreating. Last week’s post opened with a scene where I crouched on a blustery, English country hillside in the rain. In my … Continue reading →
This is the third post in my blog series about recharging and resetting your life, what I call retreating. Crouched on the grassy hill in the rolling countryside of Devon, England, I braced myself against the sharp wind and intermittent … Continue reading →
This is the second post in my blog series about recharging and resetting your life, what I call retreating. I couldn’t get any rest, curled up in my sleeping bag on the hard floor of the church for the night. … Continue reading →
Over the course of my lifetime I’ve periodically fallen into a funk where I wonder what the heck I’m doing with my life. At times I’ve felt unfulfilled, lost, or just plain bored. Sometimes I long for something other than … Continue reading →
If everyone has a fair chance at education, you ask, who’s going to do the menial, yet necessary, jobs? Teenagers, of course! (Think character and skills building.)
Continue reading →Only YOU would go to Scotland to plant trees and land yourself a nude modeling gig. The thought occurred as I sat on a metal folding chair on top of a paint-splattered oak table while five strangers interpreted my birthday … Continue reading →
I recently attended a 3-day training at a fulfillment center owned by a certain company. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, a fulfillment center is a truncated euphemism for “an unbelievably large warehouse of every conceivable thing ever … Continue reading →
“You might want to start unpacking some of these,” one of the movers kindly suggested. How many times had he seen people dazed amid a semi-load of boxes? Was the look of disbelief on my face common? Not all this … Continue reading →
My memories of the first years of Earth Day celebrations mostly center on a beloved school art teacher, who would take us into the woods next to the school to collect natural objects. We’d bring rocks, branches, and fungi back … Continue reading →
Here in the DC region and neighboring states, we’ve been commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War for the past four years. Within a 150-mile radius lie several notable sites: Harpers Ferry, where John Brown stormed the federal armory 2 … Continue reading →
