Category Archives: To Overcome Fear

Years ago my kids were involved with a rock climbing club.  One of the instructors had been an accomplished climber. He had fallen from a cliff about a year before we met him, breaking his neck.  He spent eight months in the hospital, and was mostly paralyzed from the waist down. He would sit onContinue reading “Why I Climb”

Back in the 1960’s, my grandparents would vacation every summer in the little town of Three Lakes.  They stayed at the same resort each time.  Pine Isle on Medicine Lake, faced east.  At sunset one evening, my grandmother noticed a row of cabins on the other side of the lake, whose windows glowed with beautifulContinue reading “Getting Across the Lake”