Encouraging Extraordinary!

  Canoe Race with a bad taste. The tweenage years were those of adventure for me. Oh there was plenty of angst and pre-teen trauma, but one ...

  Are you a spiritual somnambulist? When I was a boy, I would sometimes wake up in a different place than where I fell asleep. I usually end...

  We Mayor or may not have tried to borrow a McDonaldland playground character. In college, in my rebellion years, a group of friends and I ...

  On a recent trip back to my hometown of Knoxville, my mind returned to the day a highschool friend said,'' let's go cliff jump...

I spent part of my early teen years in Boy Scouts, camping, canoeing, scout meetings, tying knots, trying to learn the Scout law and oath… a...

  Hot Summer days spent by the pool with 50 other kids in embarrassingly small swimsuits… miles of Pixie Stix consumed six inches at a time ...

  When my kids were young, we tried to have a family adventure each week, like trips to a local attraction, the YMCA pool, fishing in the p...