Current Blog Postings
Shatter Your Fears: Climbing a 14er for the first (and only) time as a Boomer
This story was originally published by BoomerCafe.com “Come on, Dad. You can do it!” My twenty-something daughter’s voice was bouncing in my head. She had been saying that for years whenever we talked about “climbing a 14er,” and she was saying it now, as I struggled beneath the summit of Mt. Torrey (elevation 14,275’) in
Post Midlife Musings on the Purpose of the Past
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” -Henry Ford Hard to argue with, isn’t it? I think so, so I stopped trying. But not after decades of doing what I had always done, which was work for other people, at the place of their choosing, when
And So It Begins
It’s 1960, and I am born. No experience. Call me Stupit. I’ve worked all my life for other people. It’s 2015, and I have nothing to show for it. Except for my kids, which have nothing to do with working for other people – of being a cog in someone else’s machine. The one thing
Slow Creeping Demons and a Sleepless Night
A recent news program concerning the growing use of steroids among teenagers sent me to bed with a disturbing image stuck in my mind, and judging from the manner in which I later found myself entangled with my blankets, I would guess that my dreams that night had been rather disturbing as well. The image
