My favorite thing to do in Vermont is to go to the Price Chopper grocery store. I’ve started going there for everything. Sometimes I go even when I only need one thing that I could easily get from the corner store. Every chance I get, I’m there looking lost and acting helpless, so the cute, young boys who work there will come to my rescue. I know...

One of the things you learn very quickly when pursuing your dream is that (at first) the amount you are busy depends entirely on you. Since no one makes your dream for you, once you initialize, you must put forth a lot of energy (both physical and mental) before it accumulates into a force that will drive itself. I’ve had this point driven home twice recently....

I came home from a bike ride yesterday evening to find my mom sitting on the stoop having a late afternoon snack. “I’m feeding chicken to the chickens,” she informed me. I paused as the chickens pecked at pieces of their fellow fowls. Then watched as the chickens devoured the snack without an ounce of recognition that they were, in essence, eating...