We Are the Sum of Our Choices

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...

Vast expanses of canyon rock, textured by years of wind and water, rose up on either side of us as we braved the trail to Scout's Lookout...

Every Tuesday night, there's a sheepshead game at my neighbor's house. I've been going as often as I can for almost three years now. We...

I've never been super coordinated. Ask any of my friends. If you walk on the right side of me, I might lean into you and push you off...