the beautiful game
They call it the beautiful game. I am a big fan of soccer, a longtime player and coach, and a big fan of women’s soccer and the United States national team in particular. My daughter (whom I coached...
View Article“i will not die an unlived life”
I like the sentiment expressed in this poem by Dawna Markova posted today on the inward/outward website: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of...
View Articlegoing to new orleans
Even three years after hurricane Katrina, there is much rebuilding work yet to do in New Orleans as this video from the Center for American Progress indicates …...
View Articlereminders of an (almost) perfect day
This is one of my favorite photographs from a five-mile hike over Penobscot and Sargent mountains in Acadia National Park. It frames the reflection of the Bubbles overlooking the north end of Jordan...
View Articleheaven can wait
I don’t expect to go to heaven. At one time I did. At one time, making myself worthy of heaven was the focus of my life. From early childhood, I learned what it meant to ask Jesus into my heart with...
View Articlekilauea erupts
My wife and I were on the big island two months ago and visited Volcanoes National park. We saw some lava flows but nothing like this!
View Articlehe swam!
Today we took two of our grandsons and our two dogs for a hike in the woods. On the way back home, Toby (our six-month-old Australian Shepherd) jumped in the pond that borders our house and swam after...
View Articlea great man died tonight
A great man died tonight … Lynn Nielsen was great by the only measure that matters, that so many of us loved him. We loved him for his courage, living and dying with multiple myeloma. Eventually it...
View Articlemy favorite hiking companions
My two hiking buddies, Stoney (9 1/2 years old) and Toby (9 1/2 months old), on the way up Blue Hill.
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