Tag Archive: "memories"
Chest pain. All new. Not good. So on Wednesday, when it hadn’t stopped for three days and the pain scale hit 6 on the 10 scale, I called McHealth. They insisted I go straight to…
Sometimes, a week far away seems hardly worth the toil, though most Americans rarely do that any more. Other times, like this time, a week away feels like a mini-Sabbatical. Mazatlan served up a healthy…
Over the past 2 weeks, “Yoder & Sons,” a column by a WSJournalist and his boys, has been pondering whether Father & 14-year-old Levi should get “crazy” and take a 6-month fantasy trip. Most readers…
Getting Away From It All satiates the human need for discovery—of self, relationships, and a larger world. The problem—as with all pursuits of pleasure—is ephemerality. No matter how hard you try to seize and freeze sweet moments,…
One year ago today, our bonafide BreakAway of 69 days had just begun. By the time it was done we had hopped between five West Indian islands and enjoyed a grand family adventure.
Yet even…
What do your Christmas memories look like? With any luck, you see some heartfelt, colorful scenes of gathering, feasting, singing, baking, decorating, giving, gratitude and more. Let’s hope those traditions live on—whatever your beliefs. And…
The suffering economy may be leading people to couponing and cocooning, but we’re still suffocating in stuff. Gosh, when I recently took some high-quality clothes to a local consignment store, they rejected almost all of it. “We…
In the 139 days since I’ve been back from our latest BreakAway, I’ve noticed some shifts and differences in my mindframe and routine. Here’s a quick list of 11:
Post-BreakAway I…
Care less about…
Some of my more devout readers have been saying, “Hey, Horse: How come you don’t write much personal, emo-navel-gazing stuff lately, like you did before your BreakAway and while you were in the islands?” …
Gretchen Rubin is generating quite the buzz with her “Happiness Project.” And in this HuffPost blogpost, she asserts that reliving happy memories from the past is one small secret that happy people share. I…
