My 19 year old Subaru was doing fine. Well … it had an occasional problem starting. It would need to crank for about 10 seconds and spit out fumes of unburnt gasoline, but then it would run smoothly. This happened only occasionally, about 90% of the times it started...

In the movie “Our souls at night”, Louis is an elderly widower. One night, his neighbor Addie, who is a widow, comes over with a question that she asks with trepidation. Her nights are long and lonely, and she asks Louis if he wants to come over to sleep with her. She...

Pilots use checklists on every flight. There are different checklists for different stages of the flight to make sure that all critical steps are taken. In addition, there are separate checklists that help pilots deal with complexities and emergencies that may arise....

I am fortunate to be able to run on a trail through the wilderness behind my house. The trail is deserted, I rarely meet another person. After running this trail many times, I noticed the scene shown on the photo just off the trail. Heart-shaped rocks are wedged...

This summer I had just started a run and was two blocks away from my son’s house. The pavement was littered with apples and as I was running, I looked down and wondered if these apples could be used to make applesauce with my granddaughters. The next thing I knew I...

You may enjoy listening to my interview with Andrew Geary about Teaching with Heart. Here is the link: https://library.seg.org/doi/full/10.1190/tle43060408.1 Y Alternatively you can just click on there image.  

I am a big fan of the television series Fawlty Towers. The series is set in a small hotel in England. The hotel’s owner, Basil, is played by John Cleese. Basil is self-centered, he cannot read the mindset of others, and is prone to outburst of anger that are hilarious...

I got on the bus to the parking lot at Denver Airport. It felt crowded and a woman on crutches got on the bus. Being a gentleman, I stood up and offered her my seat. She said: “thank you, this is so kind you.” And when she sat down, she continued by saying “by the...

Do you recognize the experience that you are being challenged in some way, and that in response you become unreasonable, you might be angry and say things that you later regret? It can feel as if an alien force within takes control. Maybe I am the only person who gets...

Last summer my daughter Julia and I ran a 24-mile loop in Lost Creek Wilderness, Colorado. The spring had been wet. At one of the creeks that we crossed the water level was too high to use stepping stones to cross to the other side with dry feet. So we just stepped...