Let's make this life your best one yet. Oh, you only have one? Read on.

This is my Playground

On November 1, 2012, I was challenged to Write Every Day for 30 days. It instilled fear in my heart. Now I instill fear into keyboards and microphones and nothing can stop me. These are my stories.

How it all started.

Daring Parenting

“Oh, look how sweet Cameron looks while learning violin. In Mandarin. With his eyes closed.”

Yeah, you won’t get that. How about some of this:

What passions do you share with your kids? If you don’t know, figure it out.
Are you unintentionally giving your kids (digital) heroin? Just a little won’t hurt. Right? No, right?
The Perfect Afternoon (according to a 10-year old). Warning. It’s not pretty.

There's No Turning Back Now

Travel

Is the destination the goal? Does it matter where you’re going?

You won’t find hotel ratings in these pages. Just pure, heavy hitting travel as it happens. You might like:

Day 51: Back Home to a Foreign Country Where do we really “belong”?
I’m technically on “vacation” but I am going to sneak away to do a little “work.” All play and no work makes for, wait. Huh?
The Dutch American Friendship Treaty In case you’d like to join me.

Let's Go

This might not work. Try. Start. Step. Create. Publish. Ship. You can’t win if you don’t play. What do I have to lose? What do I have to gain? Let’s just see what happens. If I knew the outcome, I probably wouldn’t start. If you know who’s going to win the game, would you watch?

The thrill is not knowing who’s going to win. The thrill is not knowing who’s going to win. The thrill is the game.

Welcome to The Cream.

I did not have this certainty, it had me.

This gave me an inner security. When I travel, I tend to listen to and read different material. More fiction, more spiritual, less "practical" and, I don't know, hands-on. "...instead of it being a horizontal line, it's a vertical line. ... that everything is already...