Apparently Socrates, the dude credited with the founding of Western philosophy, came up with this idea of a Super-Duper Magic Ring (Greek term from the S-man himself), aka the...

Okay, so this was the riddle I made up: “What can walk for hours—constant forward momentum, one foot in front of the other, right-left-right-left—yet go nowhere and at the...

What can walk for hours—constant forward momentum, one foot in front of the other, right-left-right-left—yet go nowhere and at the same time go anywhere imaginable?

On Wednesday, September 22, planet Earth wasn’t tilted toward the sun, or away from it. Our spinning blue marble was straight up on its axis for what we call...

Deep in the Mt. Hood Wilderness, miles from the nearest road, we came upon a pile of sticks heaped inside an unused fire ring. On top of the pile,...

I’m home from a 70-mile trek on the Pacific Crest Trail—outstanding in so many ways, number one being the time to do it (I live in a position of...

John Muir famously said, “The mountains are calling and I must go.” Gandhi offered this advice: “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” I’m taking both to...

You’d think that after 47 years of marriage, Debbie and I would know all that there is to know about each other. (Maybe, at times, a bit too much...

My grandson Griffin—age 5 and in my humble opinion the most wonderful grandson of all time—gave me a Thomas the Train for my birthday. On its side is printed...

When I read a novel, I know that I’m engaged in a vicarious experience—I get to witness from a safe distance as the characters are challenged. When the going...