For three years we lived in London and I avoided driving.  I couldn’t have been happier to be without a car.  But now we are back and every day I feel like I am spending more and more of my time behind the wheel avoiding or being slowed down by other cars, pedestrians and cyclists.  It is easy to become frustrated. It is easy to forget that the people in those cars or crossing that road in the cross walk or riding on their bicycles are all out there for a reason as well.  But we need to make sure we stay focused and watch out for each other as well travel our local roads. As I sat in the …

I hate baseball.  I am sure I have just alienated a good portion of my readers but let me quickly redeem myself.  It isn’t the game itself that I hate.  It is the sitting still.  I have never been very good at sitting still.  I have never possessed much in the way of patience. So, baseball is hard for me to watch.   But as much as I hate watching the game, I love the feel of the ball.  I love tossing the ball around with my kids.  Just the very act of slipping my hand into a mitt can send me back to summer nights after my younger siblings went to bed, standing in the front yard tossing the …