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Every year, fathers and sons across the Midwest pack up their pickup trucks and head north… a pilgrimage fueled by coffee, Mountain Dew, YouTube Music on the radio, and a few unnecessary stops along the way. This year, it was my son, Ethan, and I making the trip to northern …
It was already dark on Thursday night when my son, Ethan, and I pulled up to the cottage on Hamlin Lake that our family rented for Labor Day weekend. My wife and my other two kids had arrived a few hours earlier and already started settling into our quaint little …
This post was originally published on dumbpassiveincome.com on September 7, 2022. I am re-publishing this post here with updated numbers that are closer to our current life situation in mid-2024. The greatest gift I can give to my wife, while we are both still alive and kicking, is peace of …
It was a fine Sunday afternoon in late September of 2021. A guy (me) and his son (14-year old freshman in high school, Ethan) headed out to Lowell in West Michigan for a round of disc golf. This was their second time ever playing this particular course. They both wanted …
One day, long, long…. LONG long ago, I attended my first day of school in a Spanish Immersion program. I was enrolled in this program from 1st grade until 7th grade, when I finally switched to regular English classes. Now, some years later (now that I’m old and wrinkly, I’ve …
Are you a road-trip family? Our family takes road trips fairly frequently, if not at least yearly. With a 12 ½ year old girl and 7 ½ year old boy it takes some serious creativity to make our long… LONG road trips tolerable (by long I mean our most recent …