The Ageless Experiment

The expansion bridge appeared higher and longer as the bicycles approached it from island side. We had tried it before but it felt different this time. This time we just knew we would make it there and back. 15 miles over and back over the bridge. As we got to the highest spot on the […]

Romance. Think about it. Romance. The word itself is great. It conjures up so many feelings and emotions. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Every few years they are reimagined in book or film. Camelot. Did such a place really exist. Knights, adventure, love outside of time and place. Yet in today's […]

For some reason the phrase always resonated with me. I guess it started on Sesame Street and Kermit the Frog. It became a song. But I seem to recall Frank Sinatra covering it in a song. I am sure there are some jazz renditions too. I have no doubt there is a Ray Charles version […]

Exactly who won. Exactly what was the goal. Exactly what was the purpose. You did it all for what…exactly. Power? Really? How transparent. Money? Really? How temporary. Control? Really? Get serious. What exactly. You lived, loved, laughed and cried…for what exactly. Unless you have some sense of that it is all just shadow boxing and […]

Happiness. How to locate it in your life. Is it a place. Is it a person. Is it an attitude.Is it subjective. Is it objective. Is it outlook.Contentment. Exactly what is that.Are happiness and contentment the same, variations on the same theme or distinct from one another.Are they external or internal.Happiness and contentment. They seem […]

Frozen. Why is it that some people are frozen in place. Can't go left or right or forward or back. Just frozen. Stuck like some fossil in stone. It was not always like that. It is frozen by their own creation. Is it fear of risk. Fear of unknown. Is it just not knowing what […]

Burpees. Over and over and over again. Running, jumping rope, kettle bell swings, sit ups, vertical jumps. And that was all before 8 am. And so the day begins. Seize it. Slide in kicking up the dust. Swinging for the bleachers. Why not. There are only the barriers in the mind. Some self imposed barbed […]

And then it is over. Suddenly it comes to a screeching halt. It always comes back to what my mother used to say….man plans and GOD laughs. Grand schemes. High hopes. Clever moves. But then either an illness, or nature's shift or an accident or your life's choices making you irrelevant in the journey that […]

Possibilities. Consider the possibilities. At any age. At any stage. Consider all the possibilities. You are only limited by the lack of imagination. But if you refused to be locked up in the definition of life by the others how would you choose to experience your life. Your life. Your families' life. Your children's life. […]

I remember my first car. It was Beach Boy days. It was beach and car songs.It seemed more gentle then yet I know it truly wasn't.We were right around the corner from Vietnam. The world as we knew it would change forever. Yet that one summer. That one summer moment.It all came together with that […]