Hey ,About 20 years ago, I decided to make some serious changes in my life. In that moment, I was face down on my bathroom floor, exhausted and barely conscious, suffering from double-barreled food poisoning—which means simultaneous vomit and diarrhe...

Hey ,I went white-water rafting once with a girlfriend, meeting up with a larger group of friends. It was wild and exhilarating going down the rapids, learning to survive as each set of rapids threatened us with a new way to be drowned.The adventures...

Hey ,I was born into a camping family. You don't get much say as to the family you're born into and, when you're the youngest of three, you don't even get to make a sour face about it if you happen to not be a fan of whatever it is your family does....

Hey ,When I was a kid, Geauga Lake Amusement Park was a little slice of heaven. It had coasters, live entertainment, and games of chance. It was about an hour drive and as the ferris wheel and roller coaster came into view, our excitement spiked. It...

Hey ,So a friend died this week. She was a wonderful person who was just barely 50 but caught a bad break with a rare disease. It just stinks.It stinks for her husband and her son. It stinks for her family. It stinks for her friends.But those of us w...

Hey ,Tax season was a little rough for me this year. I got it all done but it’s not a chore I relish. I try not to think about it all year which means I scramble to find this piece of paper or that, so I’d be better off if I had a weekly habit of sor...

Hey ,My wife, who is retired from the work force, tends to stay up late. Most nights, I stay up later than I should through sympathetic response. Like when you drive past people outside an ice cream store licking a cone, and decide you’d like ice cre...

Hey ,The Sunday before last, as I drove to pickleball in the morning, my car slid on some ice and hit another car. It was something of a perfect storm as the car I hit was a commercial-grade flatbed truck and the corner of the flatbed rolled up the h...

Hey ,We have just gotten past the Winter Olympics and once again I’d like nothing more than to join a curling club and slide those stones down a bumpy bed of ice at five o’clock in the morning, which is when you usually have to do those sort of thing...

Hey ,Way back in eighth grade, I was on a travel hockey team and we had a game in Hamilton, Ontario against another bantam team, which was about a four-hour drive from Cleveland. The plan was to drive east, stop in Shaker Heights to pick up two kids...