I WAS TEASED YET AGAIN recently about when I'm going to get a smartphone. And yet again I supplied one of my stock reasons (*) for continuing to use my Stone-Age flip phone. I don't deny smartphones are useful. On a recent trip to Colorado, my wife and daughter used their phones to navigate to …
Category: Running and Cycling
Why a Helmet is Worth a Bad Hair Day
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH DIFFERENT STORY. Last week we camped with some good friends in the Empire area. One day we decided to take a group ride along the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail. The ten miles between Empire and Glen Arbor are pretty and not terribly difficult. But for one friend, it was …
Those Four Little Words
Being a man can be tough. Now this is not some chauvinist rant about how women under-appreciate all that men do, or get mad when we don't share our innermost feelings, or fail to understand our need for fire, football, and grilling dead animals. While all that may be true, this is more a case …