In other words When everything was going his way, Dad called it “slicing the fat hog“. Mom always said that if everything’s going well and life seems perfect you’d better look over your shoulder. Prepare to get clobbered. She wasn’t being a pessimist. Good times and bad, thick and thin. Fat times and skinny. There’s … [Read more…]
What was your moment? How did it happen? Mine came out of nowhere. Heading Northeast out of Boulder on the Diagonal Highway on my Triumph 650 Bonneville motorcycle, that perfect July morning 30 years ago, I had no inkling my life was about to do a 180. Nineteen and just about to get married, Julie … [Read more…]
I struggled with this… …and it cost me. Because of perceptions probably programmed in my youth, I initially rejected this wisdom. It reminds me a bit of Rio Perdido, the Lost River in Costa Rica. The river is hidden from view by a deep canyon brimming with towering trees, but once discovered holds a trove … [Read more…]