March 31, 2025

Lying on the floor of the aquarium walkway, dolphins glide overhead, sending whistles and squeaks. It’s past closing time at the zoo, and all the guests are gone. It’s just my adult son, lying on the floor of the tube-like walkway that goes through the dolphin tank, vibing with the dolphins. My son’s chosen career as a child was to train dolphins, and he was obsessed.

Maybe you have a child who lives and breathes everything dinosaurs or spends all their time drawing Anime. Whatever the chosen topic…

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March 21, 2025

My kayak was turned over in the lake, and I was hanging upside down, underwater.

I was practicing rolling my sea kayak at a local lake, and I’d just failed to roll the kayak back up…

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March 20, 2025

Imagine being asked to solve this simple equation for x: x – 3 = -5 when you don’t know what an “x” means.

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February 28, 2025

Has your family ever arrived at a state park and had no idea what trail to take to see the best sites or maybe even what the best sites were at the park? Maybe you decide to just start on the trail closest to where you parked and end up hiking 4 miles in the heat through trees that all look the same.

You get home, still a little sweaty, and a friend is excited to hear all about your trip, asking you…

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