Last night my daughter posted Snapchat videos from the Muskegon Michigan winter sports complex. She was having great fun ice skating among the trees. Two acres of ice skating… hockey rink, speed skating, family rink, and a 1/4 mile ice skating trail. Add cross-country skiing and snowshoeing thru the dunes and you have a great…
Month: February 2018
T -73 Days: Quitting your day job
For Christmas my wife gave me a Nintendo Switch and Zelda… a fascinating, deep game for the system. It will be a nice diversion on rainy or snowy days in Michigan, but for now I have barely scratched the surface of this game world. While searching for a good overview video for pointers, I came…
T -74 Days: The pawn
It matters little to the pawn….. … on which square he rests…… …………………………..when taken Gone is gone. Dead is dead. Does the pawn scream when removed from the chessboard? Would the players notice? The pawn, existing, waiting, doing as ordered, propelled forward by the invisible hand of the player, until… the inevitable. “But I am…
T -75 Days: Lighthouses in Michigan
So lets see.. road trips this summer… beaches, breweries, boardwalks, wineries, and the icing on the cake.. the lighthouses of Michigan!
T -76 Days: Making it possible
My wife is a worrier too. And a doer. The amount of work needed to get ready for Michigan has been overwhelming. Especially when I have been focused on work. She has been doing way more than her fair share. My wife is the reason we are this close to making our dream a reality….
T -77 Days: Sometimes you just have to say
I have always been a worrier. Worried about today, worried about tomorrow, worried about 10 years from now. Not wanting to make a mistake. Playing it safe. My favorite professional football team has a coach whose first instinct is to play it safe. He had a quarterback who played it safe. He had a defensive…
T -78 Days: Never wish your life away
Yes, you should never, ever wish your life away. But this one time, one time only, if I could flip the calendar forward 78 days and avoid the stress of everything going on I absolutely … crap…. ok I wouldn’t. Never wish your life away. There is always something to be experienced, to be enjoyed….
T -79 Days: Failure deprived
Failure Deprived When I was an elementary school kid back in northwest Iowa many years ago, I discovered the joy of playing basketball. It quickly became an obsession. No parents, no leagues. Just neighborhood basketball every day. No matter how hot, or cold. Even thru the winter, we’d be out there shoveling off the court,…
T -80 Days: Pot for all
Marijuana in Michigan The PureMichigan website will be getting a new idea under their “things to do” this fall. Marijuana looks like it will become legal when it gets on the ballot this November and polls say it has a 60% approval rating. Two more “yes” votes heading that way… even tho it is not our…
T -81 Days: Beer here
Breweries and brewpubs in Michigan total 256. But what I really look forward to are the over 100 wineries. A great many of them are clustered along the western Michigan coast. Makes for great summer road trips… visiting beaches and wineries for many years to come.