The only way I could get my mother to agree to get a cell phone a few years ago was to tack her onto our family plan. So now she’s in New York City with an Austin area code and doesn’t use the phone that much, except when picking people up from JFK airport, which [...]

(Part 1 is here) Imagine a world… a world in which you get to finish a thought. Several thoughts. A world in which your day doesn’t start out with a bombardment of finding out who wants what via email, doesn’t have multiple people during the day asking you, “Can I ask you a question?”, and [...]

I’ve always wanted to do this, and the opportunity never arose until now. If you don’t know what Rolfing is, it’s basically like undoing all the muscular adhesions in your body that start to build up over time. And they cause things that you probably think aren’t reversible, like your bum shoulder, or your stiff [...]

This past weekend we were in Albuquerque, speaking at a national conference for acupuncturists. You might remember my post (aptly titled, “They Want WHAT? WHEN?”) about nearly throttling Will when we applied for this opportunity back in August — now we were finally here and (hopefully) ready to produce the goods. If you’ve read my [...]

Remember the kids from Team Marlene back in 2004? Those special-needs kids that pulled together and created their own charity ride, with some of them borrowing bikes, having never ridden even 5 miles before? I just got friended on Facebook by one of the girls, who is in high school now. I had especially connected [...]

OK, here is a smattering of some of the best articles I’ve ever read. They cover everything from coaching to itching, from football to Fargo. I read a lot, and these brought something different to my life, concepts and thoughts that have stayed with me for years after reading them. 1. Top of this list [...]

There are a million things to be thankful for, if you start training yourself to look for them. What most people do, though, is get really trained in finding what’s wrong with someone/something/some situation. And, holy cow, is that easy to do. Since when do you EVER find someone who does and thinks and behaves [...]

Will and I just got back from a long weekend trip to Santa Fe and it was a bit of a stick-and-carrot kind of trip. The stick part was because we flew to New Mexico to take their practical test to get licensed in that state.  But boy, they sure make you suffer a bit [...]

Yes, I know it’s “back IN the saddle” but that seems a bit weird when getting back ON the motorcycle — at least, to me it does. But now that the temperature had dropped below 90 multiple times, I finally had to grit my teeth and get on the bike. This wasn’t as bad as [...]