A week ago I went to Bear Lake for the annual family reunion and had a fantastic time. Here’s a shot on the back ladder of the Coco Bandera that shows off the amazingly blue water, glowing under my sailboat.

The first night, I took 5 nieces and nephews on the boat as we motored across a flat, calm lake from the marina to the beach near the condos, then we slept on the boat. It was maybe the last night of the Perseids meteor shower, and one nephew, on his birthday, counted 122 falling stars. Many were brilliant and long. Two nieces saw their first ever falling stars. Continue Reading »

involves driving three miles up stunning American Fork Canyon, then hiking a mile and a half and over 1,000 feet to the “office.”

<– climbing carefully below The Great Heart of Timpanogos to retrieve some fallen sunglasses with the snake stick.

The office consists of the tiny “employees only” room and our private lunch bench outside with dazzling canyon views; plus Hansen, Middle and Timpanogos Caves, where I’ll be leading tours until the cave closes for the season in October.

That’s right, I work inside Mount Timpanogos! I’m now officially a National Park Ranger – hat, badge and all. I expect to enjoy it immensely.

Success! –>

So I was talking with an old friend who’s in town tonight and we were asking each other what makes people most interesting and one key thing we discussed was that they are interested.

Interested in everything. Curious. Maybe even fascinated by a wide variety of topics. The world is a fun puzzle and it feels good to put another piece together. Connecting to people by exploring their thoughts and feelings is rewarding and becomes a natural habit.

One way to recognize such people is that they ask good questions. They really want to know. If you mention something, they’ll dig for more. Because of their experience finding out more about things, they also tend to have interesting insights of their own to add to a conversation. Continue Reading »

Read that on a friend’s facebook and laughed. So here ya go.