Dumb Assery
Dealing with the DreamCrushers
This post is a follow-up to this previous post: Choosing”Impossible” Challenges
Some of us have goals that may reside outside the realm of “sane” by societal standards. Those goals may involve running an ultramarathon, quitting a “secure” job to do something more intrinsically rewarding, traveling the world, homeschooling your children, starting an unusual business, moving to somewhere new… whatever. Invariably you’ll encounter the DreamCrushers.
DreamCrushers are the people that… well, try to crush your dreams. Read More...
Unschooling: What Does it Mean?
What the hell is “unschooling?!?”
Most people are familiar with the idea of home schooling where parents teach their children at home in lieu of a traditional school. Unschooling takes the concept a little further by eliminating “traditional” structure. Lessons are learned by experiencing life. As such, unschooling is sometimes called “life.”
Since Shelly and I hit the road last summer, we’ve been unschooling our three children ages 7, 5, and 2. It has been a Read More...
Road Running Sucks.
About a month ago I hurt my knee doing a relatively short road run and wrote about it here. I took a lot of the advice given in the comments on that post and things were feeling good. I managed to do two trail runs of about 10 miles and another 20 miler. Two days ago I decided to test my knee on roads. After six miles, it felt okay. There were a few twinges here and there, Read More...
