In this season of new beginnings there seem to be two categories of people: those who avoid New Year’s Resolutions and those who fail to keep them. Actually, there’s a small third group. Something around 7-8% of people who make resolutions actually accomplish them. I’ve been thinking about why we struggle so much with new […]
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A Brush With Fame
Note: This post is part of the story-behind-the-story of RICH’S RIDE. I wrote it as a thank-you to Don Miller, without knowing if I’d be able to get the attention of a famous author like him. I worked at it for a few weeks, and yesterday he responded! He also tweeted a link. In a […]
Continue readingHow Donald Miller Changed My Life
Note: This post is part of the story-behind-the-story of RICH’S RIDE. I wrote it as a thank-you to Don Miller, without knowing if I’d be able to get the attention of a famous author like him. I worked at it for a few weeks, and yesterday he responded! He also tweeted a link. In a […]
Continue readingDid You Learn This In Driver’s Ed?
Happy New Year! I snapped this incredible scene beside the Mississippi River south of La Crosse, Wisconsin during our 1500-mile journey in 2011. I wanted to display the great view of the road over the front wheel of my handcycle, but when I looked at the photo I noticed the presence of the rear view […]
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Happy New Year! I snapped this incredible scene beside the Mississippi River south of La Crosse, Wisconsin during our 1500-mile journey in 2011. I wanted to display the great view of the road over the front wheel of my handcycle, but when I looked at the photo I noticed the presence of the rear view […]
Continue readingThe Last Minute?
Politicians and middle school kids apparently have something in common—they procrastinate difficult work, rush to throw something together at the last minute, and blame others when it’s not finished on time. I’m waiting to hear “the dog ate the fiscal cliff bill.” I read somewhere that today’s the biggest single day of the year for […]
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It’s New Year’s Eve, and I have a simple word-of-the-week… CLICK If we believe the pundits, the Mayan calendar was wrong. The REAL end of the world comes when we plunge over the so-called fiscal cliff. Call me cynical, but I don’t think that’ll happen. The irresponsible politicians who invented this latest crisis will find […]
Continue readingWhy Doesn’t The Bike Move?
Rich and Becky do some things that just don’t make sense. Most of the time I just go along. I figure I’m just a dog and they’re smarter than I am. But Rich does this one really dumb thing every winter. Now Becky’s doing it, too, and even a dog can see it makes no […]
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Note: I’m taking a little break this week, so my favorite guest blogger is filling in both here and over at RICH’S RIDE. # # # Rich and Becky do some things that just don’t make sense. Most of the time I just go along. I figure I’m just a dog and they’re smarter than […]
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Happy New Year! Some thoughts about jumping into 2013 in the last 2012 edition of Rich’s Semi-Regular Newsletter.
Continue readingA Time To Stop
For a couple of days, it’s time to stop. For a couple of days, no talk of rides and books and Florida. For a couple of days we let that stuff go and remember why we’re doing this. More than two thousand years ago a little baby was born. His birth changed history and brought […]
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Happy Monday! It’s Christmas Eve, the perfect time for this word-of-the-week… MESSY In our house we have a couple of nativity scenes. One’s white-and-gold porcelain, the other’s beautifully carved from walnut by a friend. They’re neat and pretty, and they don’t smell. The first Christmas was a mess. People traveled to their ancestral home of […]
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