If at First You Don’t Succeed… Don’t Try Again

If at First You Don’t Succeed… Don’t Try Again

My Grandma was the one who introduced me to the aphorisms that contain universal wisdoms: Make new friends but keep the old… put a penny in the old man’s hat… and if at first you don’t succeed. I thought about that ditty about trying again, after attempting to cross a...
Bicycle Touring and Writing with Beginner’s Mind

Bicycle Touring and Writing with Beginner’s Mind

Bicycle Touring and Writing with Beginner’s Mind When I am teetering, when I feel raw, vulnerable, on a precipice, I pedal my bicycle to reenter the world.  I know that life will meet me around a corner. The stream moves with me. The wind teases.  I meet a man...