Climbing the Alp de Zwift and other challenges. Sometimes I get these crazy notions. Well, OK, more than sometimes. For three weeks in a row my crazy notion was to join the Thursday night race up the Alp de Zwift. Let me explain. The Alp de…
When I was about sixteen years old my love affair with cars started more out of necessity than anything else. With little money and in constant need of cheap car parts I spent a lot of time at the local salvage yard looking for used parts.…
Most of the time, I feel like I am twenty-five. Then I look in the mirror and jump back….who is that!? Oh yeah, I forgot again. I am not twenty-five. There are other reminders that I am not twenty five like when I spend two hours…
I was always small as a kid growing up. A bout of undiagnosed allergy triggered asthma caused me to not grow for a year when I was two years old, or so I am told. I also had a late birthday so when I started my…
JT Swing Sometimes you just have to put yourself out there, extend yourself beyond what you know. It is scary to step into the unknown. It can be overwhelming. I am one of those people that exist on the edge of curiosity. I don’t think it…
The Inevitability of Time The passage of time is inevitable. It will pass while we work, while we play and even when we sleep. Time stops for no one except for maybe Joshua (Joshua 10:13). I do find that rarely does anyone hope that time slows…
There are few things we can count on in life and change is one of them. You could say that change is a constant like death and taxes. Most of us hope for change and yet are afraid of it. We complain about change when it…
AS a kid growing up, I had to work for everything. By the age of fifteen I was even buying most of my own clothes. By age sixteen I had purchased a car, had car insurance in my own name and paid for all of the…
Some people say that I am a pretty intelligent person. If I am it is only because I have made more mistakes than most. You could say I have a great deal of experience making mistakes. Some people say that I am wise. If I am…
I am one of those people, I just don’t smile much. People tell me I don’t look happy. I personally think being happy is over rated. There is a famous whitewater kayaker and Olympian named Eric Jackson. He says that things are rarely as good or…