We Are the Sum of Our Choices

I was heading up to bed. As I reached for the light switch, I noticed a red glow coming from the panel on the oven. Why was it still on?...

My windows are wide open this afternoon. The breeze is softly blowing across my face as I write this. It's the first day of spring. And...

How many choices do you think we make in a given day? Month? Year? I know some days it feels like way too many. If I'm honest, some days...

The marker for mile #8 was a few blocks behind us when I heard this: "How's your knee?" "It hurts, but I'm going to do this!" We turned...

Ever notice how some things can be weirdly specific? Like this collection box I saw at a gas station the other day. It made sense to me...

I spend more time than I would like waiting in lines lately. The line at the grocery store. The line at school drop off. The line at the...

My cat knocked over the recycling bin in my kitchen the other day. I came home to find the contents of it strewn across my kitchen. Soup...

There's a giant window in the back of the room where my son and I stayed at the Children's Hospital in downtown Chicago this past week. ...

The water was calm. The beach practically empty. The sky filled with clouds. The sun was trying hard to break through. Slivers of light...

As soon as I heard it I knew. That awful sound of metal spinning in the garbage disposal. One of my new spoons had fallen in it while I...

Life is messy. In lots of different ways. There are literal messes in our homes. Constant cycles of cleaning up, making new messes, and...

I was 12 in this picture I think. That was 35 years ago almost! Hard to believe. I can still hear the sound of my dad's laughter, and...

Reset. Recharge. Refocus. As many times as you need to. I read that somewhere, and it inspired me. I try to live by it. There's so much...

Christmas is my favorite time of year in so many ways. But gift buying is not one of them. Trying to figure out what to get those people...

The other day, the internet was down in the entire city of Oconomowoc. There were insanely high winds that were apparently causing the...

When I was in Utah last month at Zion National Park, I found myself fascinated by the trees. They grew out of the rocks, roots winding...

Awhile back, I wrote a blog about George. How I inherited him when my dad passed away and he stands guard over the fireplace in my family...

Roots, fallen leaves, tree stumps, and rocks. Scattered in the path ahead of us. The twists and turns through the forest took us further...

Do more. Take on more. Be more. And do it all faster than you've ever done it before. It's an unsustainable pace. We rush and rush to try...

In the past few weeks, I've stepped pretty far out of my comfort zone. Challenged myself to do things I've never done before. Things that...