Sometimes opportunities come along to remind you that you don't HAVE to take them ( Read more... )

 I worry.   I do!  I feel I need to be able to justify, to whomever inquires, what I did with my time and why ( Read more... )

 That's it!  I throw in the hat!  No more!  I won't do it!  I simply won't.  I refuse! ( stomps foot, crosses arms, pouts ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

 A friend asked how the road trip was at the end of the class.  It was the last step in the 18 hour instruction.  For an hour and a half the whole class hit the streets of Calgary and road out in the big scary world in the traffic.   We were assigned a position in the " pack" and what bike we rode based on our skills demonstrated in the class.  ( Read more... )

"I know what I am... I don't know WHO I am.   And I won't turn back until I find out."
~daughter of Balto

Ok... anyone who knows my man... knows that compliments to his wife are...errr... backhanded at the very least.  That he also starts most conversations in a 6 foot hole and keeps digging.  Once he starts digging... his policy is "never go back man.. just keep going."   'A' summed it up that " the man has a lot of tunnels to china!".

Many of you have ( Read more... )

Recently I emailed an old mentor/teacher of mine and, in addition to the touching base kinda natterings, I again thanked him for his hours of advice and wisdom sharing. I also half jokingly commented on his Idol Worshop / Teenie Bopper Infatuation status. I spent a couple hours looking at his works and was completely reassured that he was still ( Read more... )