atonement

Today is a day to do something significant. Yom Kippur starts this evening and ends tomorrow night. I’ve been told that this is the holiest of holidays for the Jewish faith, and even Jews who don’t usually observe other Jewish holidays observe this one. Yom Kippur...

buying a pair of boots

Recently, one of my good friends asked me to meet him at Mark’s Outdoor Sports for the store’s big sale. My friend wanted to buy some hunting boots, and I thought it would be a good excuse to shop for some fishing stuff. Mark’s Outdoor Sports is legendary. People come...

waite phillips’s rules for business

This summer, I went on a 12-day backpacking trip with my 15-year-old son at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. Even people not involved with Boy Scouts of America have heard of this famous camp. Philmont is legendary in the Scouting world with both boys and adults...

rafting safety

This summer, while vacationing in the North Carolina mountains, my wife and I decided to go on a rafting trip down the Nantahala River with two of our children. Each year we do something like this—rafting, tubing, canoeing, etc.—on a different river, usually in...