Falling off your bike is not something I would wish on anyone. Well maybe Idi Amin, or Pol Pot or some anonymous torturer in a prison in Venezuela or Syria. A good helmet is key for the rest of us and I thank the Lord above for mine. Just a light clip on the back tire and down I went, all bets off. Five days later, bruised but not broken, brain intact, bike still in the shop, I am proselytizing for helmet use. I re-watched Christopher Nolan’s Inception last night. Although th

Losing is tough. Deciding on a career change is tougher.

A few of the guys I went to elementary and high school with get together at a cottage for a few days every summer. We are a group of men who are very similar and yet very different. I am struck every year, how competent and accomplished they are (in ways our society does not reward) and how easy going and open minded they have remained. We eat and drink a little too much, talk into the night and do a lot of laughing. There is fishing (they all go back), hiking, canoeing and k