Growing up with only sisters, I often heard and accepted as funny, Oh your poor dad. To which we’d quickly respond, because we thought we […]
#brian&jen2.0
So, last week we bought another VW Eurovan. From 2009 until 2016, we owned a 2001 VW Eurovan Westphalia Weekender, and we loved it. I […]
Too cool for school
Both of my kids have decided not to go to college. I was not a great high school student in my day. I only did […]
Book review
Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains, by Anna Fleming. Canongate Books, Ltd., 2022. I am writing a memoir on rock climbing and […]
Let me be old.
I’m almost 50. Brian is 50. We still rock climb. This is not a surprise to anyone, except to us, occasionally, when we are picking […]
What happened when I stopped running
Years ago I stopped running. Seems like it was maybe a couple years ago, but really, I haven’t run in six years or more. I’m […]
I only read 27 books this year…
or, a very indirect and meandering review of 2022, and a topsy-turvy possibly unhealthy expectation of how 2023 could turn out I have read more […]
Stop it, already.
A great article came out in the latest (last?) issue of Climbing magazine, by a badass 49-year-old woman. Climbing usually does not have a lot […]
The test my kids took to get their driver’s license is stupid.
And I’m not saying this because my 16 year old son failed, again. He did finally pass his test last week, and is somehow now […]
One of these days…
The weather is beginning to cool off, though it’s still pretty humid some days. The nights are chilly, and the mornings dawn through a haze […]
