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Spring.
It has been a very very long time since I sat down to write anything. It’s been a hectic time for us —good exciting stuff like travel, buying a house and renovating it,… Continue reading
Motivators
“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things-to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.” -Edmund Hillary Life here is all about the uber athlete. You… Continue reading
Game Over
Let’s face it, it was kinda getting’ too good to be true. Weekend trips to Jackson Hole for kids’ hockey tournaments, deep bonding conversations on the gondola with teenagers after school, homework (mostly)… Continue reading
Bad Blogger!
Writing is hard. Partially because it takes a tremendous amount of discipline to sit down at a computer and not wander over to the internet to do your Christmas shopping, and when you… Continue reading
Election Day
This post has nothing to do with election day except that I am writing it on November 6th, which around here feels like any other day. (The deer and the elk and the… Continue reading
Must be peaking—
The weather has been glorious—as in indescribably, hard-to-capture-on-film, can’t quite articulate, but generally speaking: perfectly spectacular. The sky is a deep blue, the smoke has cleared away, the aspens light up the… Continue reading
Some Life Lessons at 5840
1.) Middle aged people are not the only ones who feel the altitude. Dogs, too, have to get acclimated and are great to bring along on mountain hikes as they provide… Continue reading
The eve of…
Phew. Well even if the forest fires prevent us from getting to Sun Valley, our house in Illinois is immaculate, our photos organized, papers sorted, itunes accounts stocked. I’ve got an ointment and… Continue reading