Choose Your Travel Partners Wisely!
Long-distance bicycle touring comes in various shapes and sizes. You can tour by yourself, with a partner, or with a group. On our 2010 cross-country bicycle tour, Debbie and I found ourselves in the company of the optimal travel partner–one…
Parenting Tips Part II
Tim shared his parenting tips in the last post. Mine draw from years in the classroom with elementary school students. Here they are: 1. Teach and model the importance of manners early in your child’s life. I have seen a…
Parenting Tips Part I
A friend and work colleague of Debbie asked us something that I never thought I would be asked as someone who never had children: Could you please write some tips on good parenting? Well, could I ever! Those of you…
Celebrate New Year’s More Often
Aren’t most New Year’s resolutions made with the latent premise that they will be broken? They may last for a few days, weeks, maybe even months, but, eventually, anything that requires that formality, that type of declaration, will soon be “toast”–and not…