One evening during a conversation with my therapist, she asked me, “What are you doing for fun? You need something to look forward to besides work opportunities.” Her comment made me pause and think ...

As we dive into a new year, many of us find ourselves reflecting on where we’ve been and where we want to go. After about 5 minutes of pondering my future, I picked up my phone. Procrastinating with a ...

For a procrastinator, a bucket list can be more about failure than fantasy. It exists in your head, always changes and is never completed – an endless tally of unlived dreams. As with seemingly ...

“Last Watch” — I painted this in the months after my father passed away. I spent three days and three nights by his side—watching, waiting, remembering. In those quiet hours, I thought about the life ...

I’m floored at the amount of emails, calls and cards readers have sent since I announced my journey against a (second) bout of cancer. I wish I could reach out to each of you personally and hug you.

It was a few years ago that my wife and I were talking about our next trip/adventure and we began sort of listing places we “could” go. As we blurted out some far-flung places, we found ourselves ...

CLIMBING the Swiss Alps had been on my bucket list since I first tasted snow in South Lake Tahoe, California, in 1978. I was ...

Michigan’s best views are almost in Canada. You'll find them on the Keweenaw Peninsula where there’s no cell signal and no ...