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We went to Columbus, Ohio, at the end of May for another travel volleyball weekend, which meant the usual combination of hotel logistics, convention center walking, team schedules, tournament brackets, restaurant decisions, and parents trying to figure out how to eat actual food at strange hours. By this point in …
We were back on the road again on a Friday night… and of course, this was the one Friday where work ran late. Lately, things at FedEx Freight had been pretty smooth. Easy runs, getting out between 4:30 and 5:30, nothing too crazy. But not this day. The Greenville route …
We drove all the way from Michigan to Gulf Shores, Alabama, with a pretty simple goal in mind… get out of the cold, find some sunshine, and spend a week at the beach. After months of gray skies, freezing temperatures, and everything that comes with a Midwest winter, spring break …
We left Grand Rapids for Spring Break with a simple plan: point the car south and make our way to Gulf Shores, Alabama, for the week. Eight-plus hours of driving on Friday, another long stretch on Saturday, and somewhere along the way, we’d settle into vacation mode. What we didn’t …
We left Grand Rapids on Friday afternoon, thinking this was going to be a volleyball weekend. By the time we got home Monday night, it had turned into something bigger than that. A championship run. A migraine lesson at age fifty. And a quiet internal wrestling match with a casino …
I have a habit of getting excited about an idea, diving in headfirst, and then quietly questioning my life choices a few weeks later if the results don’t show up fast enough. Sometimes I stick with things long enough for them to work. Sometimes I don’t. Most of the time, …
I wanted to listen to the entire audiobook of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. I really did. I downloaded it on my Audible app with good intentions. I hit play. I gave it an honest shot. And then… I didn’t finish it. Not because I think the topic is …
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 …
As a local truck driver, I’ve ventured in and out of hundreds of different factories and businesses throughout my 23+ years of driving a semi-truck. It seems like I’ve seen just about everything. Recently, I was walking through a printing factory in Sparta, MI… finding my way to the restrooms, …
Nothing says “perfect timing” like dropping a few thousand dollars on a luxury mattress… only for it to arrive the exact morning you leave for vacation. That’s exactly what happened when my wife, Susie, and I ordered the Puffy Royal Luxury Mattress. After 18 years of sleeping on our trusty-but-tired …