“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” – Anatole France I made some aesthetic changes to Leaving a Path’s look recently.  I got to thinking the other day about the…

One of my favorite moments of the day is when I pick up the girls from school.  I get Cate first because she has to wait in line with her class before her kindergarten teacher releases her to me.  I usually see Cate before she sees me, her shocking blonde hair obvious in the line-up…

I started my teaching job this week at Creighton University.  Wednesday night I met with what ended up being the 19 students I’d have for the next 11 weeks.  It’s a Finance class for Entrepreneurial Ventures and is at a graduate level.  Many of the students are Social Entrepreneurship majors, though I have some Philosophy…

February 10, 2013One Year CrossFit Anniversary “Men will be good or bad builders as a result of building well or badly.”  – Aristotle January was a less than stellar month for me.  Not that December was a cake walk, but I was ready for February to start.  At 6:06AM I got a text message that…

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My hands were shaking so bad I sliced my finger open just trying to cut an avocado.  Ironically, the hands I sliced were just like his hands.  Long, slender fingers, but strong and durable.  I always loved his hands.  It was just another reminder.  One of many reminders that had been flooding my senses the…

January 23, 2013 My mom called me last night with bad news. My grandfather had been admitted to the hospital again.  A frequent victim of nasty infections, half a dozen in as many weeks he weakens and becomes more disorientated each time, making it harder on his body to recover.  For a man, at age…

“Pick up the bar.  Pick up the bar.  Pick up the bar.” I kept saying it in my head.  It was almost my turn.  I’d bailed out under the bar on my seventh and ninth of ten rounds attempting escalating hanging squat snatches and now I was struggling to get out of my own head….

January 20, 2013 Okay, so I am about 22 days into what has been a very long and difficult month of adjustments to the new food routine. My last “official” update was at day 7.   I’m happy to report I’m finding my balance and I’m really making the food work for me and for…