As I have written before, I spent time on Zwift, part bike smart trainer, part virtual reality, part online game. Tonight’s goal was to complete the Everest Challenge, 164,042 feet of climbing. This Zwift thing started November 9, 2018 with the purchase of a smart trainer…
I have always had this love hate thing going with fire. When I was an early teen we used to burn our papers outside which was very normal for country living way back then (ahem). One day it got away from me and I had to…
The phone rang one day and there was another young couple looking for one of my sisters to babysit so they could have a night out. My oldest sister Debby had long since moved out and my sister Stacie was out on a date with her…
Making Due As a kid growing up, as a family we didn’t have much. There was hunting, fishing and gardening to make up the short fall of the money we lacked. We picked and froze fruit, canned and we even kept potatoes in the basement kind…
Stage Fright Thank God I do not get stage fright though it would be more correct to say I do not get stage fright like I used to. I vividly remember my first band concert in sixth grade. I sat down in my chair, the curtains…
OK all of you cycling fans and health nuts out there! Here is something you just have to try. Every once in a while you stumble on that must have recipe. I make these cookies and take them everywhere and have always gotten good reviews. Here…
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…
Practice Learning new things has always been a challenge for me especially when it comes to physical skills. Dancing, playing guitar, martial arts, none of it has come easy. I envy people that learn new things quickly because I am not one of them. When I…
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…