Years ago, my friends and I devised a game where two of us would run off into the woods to hide and everyone else would come find them. It sounds a lot like ‘hide and seek,’the difference is that we played the game 35 miles away from the nearest town … and we played one round from breakfast to sundown. We called the game “manhunt,” after a similar game my high school friends played after football games (their version involved rocks, police cars, and several hours of running through town … needless to say, my version was much more fun). [Read more...]
Apr
30
Breaking Tradition
Most people have any number of traditions in their lives. You might always visit a particular household around Christmas-time. You might have some kind of routine family gathering around Easter. Your kids might goad you into a Disneyland trip every July. It doesn’t really matter who you are, there are things you do for no other reason than because “it’s tradition.” [Read more...]
Nov
30
Take a Break
This weekend, I took a break. Not just from work, not from chores … I took a break from everything. I drove to the coast early Friday afternoon and spent the weekend amongst the trees, the surf, and (oddly enough) several rabbits in a campground. [Read more...]
