Keep it Green

Sometimes beauty can bring you to a standstill, even when you’re on skis. If you are willing slow down long enough. How often do we notice something amazing and keep right on moving? Oh, that’s nice is all our brains and our hurry will allow. Life is a little bit better—or a lot bit better—if…

Today was my first swimming lesson. (As a dad.) Jakey and I journeyed across town to Matt Dishman Community Center. I didn’t expect the sensation coursing through me as I carried him across the parking lot. I was nervous. I spend all my time around pools. I run two of them, I have swum in…

He is a chicken police officer and I am a raccoon. Same job title. We are patrolling a construction site at night. What was that strange noise from behind the cement mixer? We should investigate. Those with less imagination would notice it is broad daylight on a sunny afternoon in our back yard In a…

It’s like returning to your childhood home to find a shopping mall where you expected the little league field. Ski slopes should have snow on them in February, at least in the northern hemisphere. At least on Earth. I learned to ski at Meadows when I was 12. Sometimes you ski powder and sometimes you…