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Will You Live Or Die On An Adventure?

Mark Twain said, “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” On my first trip to Alaska as a young adventure-seeker at 24, I woke up in my tent on the Russian River of the Kenai [...]

Your Edge Equates to Maximizing Yourself

No matter what you learned in your youth, good or bad, you can change that orientation by understanding what happened to you. With understanding, you can rewrite the hard drive in your mind. You can decide to take action. You can move toward [...]

What Does It Mean To Be An Adult?

Most people think they know exactly what it means to be an adult: Pay all your bills on time, do your own laundry, and don’t get fired from your job. Or if you’re a little more rebellious, it may be something like: hire someone to [...]
Talons From The Sky: Coiled Scales On The Ground

Talons From The Sky: Coiled Scales On The Ground

Heading eastbound across southern California, the sun set low in the sky. We looked for a campsite in the rocky terrain east of Joshua Tree National Monument. “We better find a spot soon,” Sandi said. “I’m looking, dear,” I said. Up [...]
Learning To Live Above Your Demons

Learning To Live Above Your Demons

You’ve got them. I’ve got them. Everybody’s got them. They haunt our dreams. They foment our insecurities. They make us doubt ourselves. They play with our subconscious. They cause us to make silly choices. What are they? Answer: our demons. How [...]
Podcast: Oh Grow Up: Toddlers To Preteens Decoded

Podcast: Oh Grow Up: Toddlers To Preteens Decoded

Listen Here: Kathy Fray is a best-selling author from New Zealand. As a respected midwife her book OH BABY … Birth, Babies & Motherhood Uncensored is her country’s No.1 selling guide to childbirth and infants. Kathy discusses parenting [...]
Inclusion v. Tolerance: More Than Food For Thought

Inclusion v. Tolerance: More Than Food For Thought

Over the past year, higher education has had an intense national conversation about the need to diversify its faculty, staff and executive administration. This time has long been coming, as a majority of the young people born are black, brown [...]
Wonder of Bicycle Travel: Magic Moments

Wonder of Bicycle Travel: Magic Moments

It could happen in the morning when you pedal down the highway to see dewdrops sparkling off the leaves of a cherry tree. You stop to pull cherries off the tree along the Lewis and Clark Trail in Oregon. Their succulent sugars bathe your mouth [...]
Sack The Phone Before Driving

Podcast: Sack The Phone Before Driving

Listen Here: Bob Ragazzo is a certified Defensive Driving Instructor and founder of Save Your Teen Driver. Texting (also tweeting and snap chatting) While Driving has become an epidemic on our roadways, accounting for at least AT LEAST 5000 [...]
Difference Between An Average Life Vs. A Spectacular Life

Difference Between An Average Life Vs. A Spectacular Life

Do you work a nine to five disinteresting job? Do you watch four hours of television everyday after work? Are your weekends filled with powerboats, beer and grilled ribs? Do you lust for the thrill of the NFL season? Will you be remembered for [...]
Why Manners Still Matter

Podcast: Why Manners Still Matter

Listen Here: Jodi RR Smith is the founder of Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting and author of three books including From Clueless to Class Act: Manners for the Modern Woman. When you think of etiquette, it may conjure up images of dowager countesses [...]
Losing My Anchor At My Mother’s Passing

Losing My Anchor At My Mother’s Passing

This summer, after two years existing under assisted living, my mother passed away peacefully in her sleep. My two younger brothers and I stood near the bed watching her life energy ebb, wane and finally, vanish. She spoke her last words in [...]
Coulter Bay, Grand Tetons, Fleeting Moment

Coulter Bay, Grand Tetons, Fleeting Moment

On your bicycle, backpack, canoe or any journey, there’s always that special “moment” that pops out of nowhere. It flashes in front of you much like an ephemeral lightning bolt out of the heavens. It strikes your eyes, your senses, your [...]
Meloti and Isabel Wijsen: Bye, Bye Plastic Bags on Bali

Meloti and Isabel Wijsen: Bye, Bye Plastic Bags on Bali

Two sisters, Meloti and Isabel Wijsen, 12 and 10, noticed plastic bags clogging the beaches, streams, streets and highways around their tiny island of Bali. What they witnessed appalled them. Ironically, Bali tourist organizations sang praises [...]
Olympic State of Mind

Olympic State of Mind

Olympic State of Mind This week the world descends on Rio De Janeiro for the Summer Olympic Games.  The pageantry and excitement hold the attention of the world for the two weeks that world class athletes compete for some of the loftiest accolades [...]

A Marmot’s Words: “Welcome To My World!”

Verdant green lodge pole pines blanket the Mount Holy Cross Wilderness region. A cobalt sky profiles rolling mountain tundra while gray rock peaks push against the universe. In the valleys, snow-fed sparkling rivers cascade over boulders, while [...]
Campy was Right, I was Wrong and LeBron was

Campy was Right, I was Wrong and LeBron was Somewhere in the Middle

I often talk about sports. I refer to examples in politics too. The main reason I talk about both is that they are such public examples of effective and less than effective communication. Sports is a public example of protecting one’s value [...]

Life’s Coffin or Life’s Highway to Heaven

What do your really need in your life each day? Food, water and a place to lay your head! Maybe a few friends to support your journey and share conversations! You need some kind of activity that provides purpose and a feeling of accomplishment. [...]
Street Safe Kids

Podcast: Street Safe Kids

Listen Here: Stephanie Mann has been a crime and violence prevention specialist for 39 years and has authored five prevention books including her most recent, Street Safe Kids, which is written for parents, grandparents, teachers and coaches [...]
Piranha Yama & The Art of Non-biting

Podcast: Piranha Yama & The Art of Non-biting

Listen Here: Dr. Bill Kalatsky is a New York City based Chiropractor, Energy Worker, Educator and author who focuses on freeing up energy and patterns in the mind, body and spirit. His first children’s adventure book titled, “Piranha [...]
Making Change A Way Of Life

Podcast: Making Change A Way Of Life

Listen Here: Barney Kramer is the President of Strategic Management and an experienced leadership trainer, coach, writer and speaker here with us to discuss the why and how of change. Barney shares insights on why it is such a critical component [...]

Bicycling the Continental Divide—Grizzly Attack

Yellowstone National Park: when Gerry and Dave pedaled westward, I felt my heart grow sad. At the gate entrance of Madison Junction campground, I paid my bill for the “Hike-biker” section. No laughter tonight around the campfire. I pitched [...]
For the First Time on Television

Podcast: For the First Time on Television

Listen Here: Garry Berman is a pop culture historian who has written several books covering a wide range of topics related to entertainment history. His new book For the First Time on Television, details over 100 “firsts” in the [...]
Podcast: Student Athlete Catch 22

Podcast: Student Athlete Catch 22

Listen Here: Nick Savage is the founder and CEO of The League Inc., and the Executive Director of The League of Extraordinary Athletes, a non-profit that focuses on delivering concierge services to student-athletes and artists to achieve a [...]
Podcast: #TryHarder

Podcast: #TryHarder

Listen Here: Today’s guest is radio host, programmer and consultant, Chase Patrick Murphy, author of the book #TryHarder and creator of the #Tryharder philosophy – a way of thinking that encourages readers to stop, take a moment and [...]
Podcast: Planning A "Gap Year"

Podcast: Planning A “Gap Year”

Listen Here: Marianne Bohr is a travel blogger for the Huffington Post and author of Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries. Planning A “Gap Year” What is a Gap year? How do you muster up the courage to sell [...]

Wildflowers in the Mist: Mountain Climbing

“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter that the outcome, [...]

Lessons from the Purple Rain, Advocacy for Social Justice

As the world mourns the untimely death of Prince, we all can reflect on his life, music, and artistry. Many of us grew up with “Let’s Go Crazy,” or turned a devilish smile with “Darling Nikki.’ Yet there are lessons to be learned about [...]

Bear Scare: Why Is My Hair Standing On End?

Adventure is not always comfortable; however, it’s still adventure. It’s not always safe, either. Whatever it is, it beats a couch, remote control and the indolent TV any day of the week. Our first canoe trip of the summer proved green trees, [...]
Podcast: New Book Offers Hope For Caregivers

Podcast: New Book Offers Hope For Caregivers

Listen Here: Today’s guest is bereavement care specialist, Dr. Virginia Simpson. In her new book, The Space Between: A Memoir of Mother-Daughter Love at the End of Life, Dr. Simpson takes readers through her years as her mother’s caregiver [...]
Tips To Keep That Youthful Look

Tips To Keep That Youthful Look

Recently, having been complimented on my skin yet again, especially acknowledging my large amount of accumulated years, I repeated an old joke about whipping up a potion – a witchy potion – that I take every night to keep that youthful appearance! Actually, [...]

ARRESTED FOR HAVING TOO MUCH FUN!

“When something becomes too much fun, the government will move swiftly to tax it.” -Disgruntled Taxpayer Outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Route 80, my brother Howard and I cranked east through the afternoon heat. Sweat dripped from our [...]
Menopause Rocks

Menopause Rocks

Each human and each animal experiencing menopause (pause from menses) is unique. There are also shared similarities. Here is my personal experience. For forty years I bleed each month. I feel deep passion surging through me. Impelled to creatively [...]
Podcast: Reading & Writing Helps Children Grieve

Podcast: Reading & Writing Helps Children Grieve

Listen Here: Barbara Donsky is author of Veronica’s Grave: A Daughter’s Memoir, a former professional children’s reading specialist who discusses her book with us today and how reading can help children cope with trauma. Reading & [...]

High Altitude Adventure: Hut-to-Hut

“Have you known the Great White Silence? Not a snow-gemmed twig aquiver? Eternal truths that shame our soothing lives? Have you broken trail on snowshoes? Mushed your huskies up the river? Dared the unknown, led the way, and clutched the [...]