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Every post, since 2010
328 stories and counting.
2026 · 11
2025 · 27
- Happy 30th Anniversary!
- Return to Atalaya Mountain
- Walk to a Waterfall
- Walk on a Beach
- Walk in the Grand Canyon
- Walk at Night
- But You Haven’t Said Anything about Retirement.
- The Artist’s Joy in Creation
- Walk with Devotion
- Spontaneity
- Walk with Longing
- Imagination
- A Receptive Spirit
- Curiosity
- Rebellion
- Freedom
- Walk as an Artist
- Europe on Foot
- Fun at Lower Elevations
- Know When To Say “Whoa!”
- Walk in the Mountains
- Walk in the Wild
- Walk in Places That Are Good for You
- Walk in Places You Love
- Walk in the Fall
- Walk in Summer
- Walk in Spring
2024 · 32
- Walking in Winter
- Walk to Stretch Time
- Consider Nordic Walking
- Walk to Stimulate Your Senses
- Grandma Gatewood’s Walk
- Walk to Go the Distance
- Discover Your Best Pace
- Walk To Get Lost
- Walk To Do Nothing
- Walk to Think
- Tired of Walking? Try Sauntering.
- Walk Your Dog
- Out-Walk Your Troubles
- Walk with Cheerfulness.
- Walking with Others, Part III
- Walk with Others, Part II
- Walk with Others
- 2025 Update (Kindle Version)
- 64 Fun Walks and Day Hikes
- Walking as a Metaphor for Life
- Walk to Discover
- Walk To Be Surprised
- Walk a Familiar Path
- On Sunrises
- Embrace the Morning
- Get Outside
- Walk Alone
- Walk as a Child
- Born into the Family of Walkers
- The Highways of the gods
- The Short History of Walking for Pleasure
- The Pleasantest Thing in the World
2023 · 2
2022 · 6
2021 · 5
2020 · 8
2019 · 42
- My First Book Reading
- A Not-So-Timely Update
- Can’t Get Enough of Christmas
- A Ghost Story
- Questions about Blogging
- Keep Your War Stories
- Book Signing Drama
- Does It Really Help?
- The Retirement Crisis: It’s about Hope
- Isn’t That the Point?
- Wish I Was Hiking
- The Mattering Test
- Blocked Dreams
- A Rainy Day Serendipity
- My Elevator Pitch
- Tommy Hunter’s Ducks
- Hands Down, Biscuits and Gravy
- Europe on a Budget
- You Can’t Make Old Friends
- Not Another Little Book on Christianity
- Shoe Strings and Other Things
- Fairy Dust
- John Wayne and Reader Response
- Feeling Thankful
- Road Trip
- Now Available on Amazon
- Reader Comments
- My Sophisticated Marketing Plan
- It’s Almost Ready
- Forgotten Dreams
- Creativity
- Book Cover Contest
- Blessings of the Blank Page
- Aspen Trees
- On Thriving
- Gone Fishing
- Time in a Bottle
- Help Choose a Book Title
- Our Drive
- Bill
- Minor Leaguers
- Old Mike’s Peak
2017 · 16
- So Many Friends, So Little Time
- Worth the Fight
- Camp Friends
- The Lunch Bunch
- My Friends: An Introduction
- My Weakness: His Strength
- Chrystelle
- Not a Good Week
- Leisure: Fun Is What It Is
- The Leisure Fallacy
- A Place for Leisure
- Who Am I?
- The Neutral Zone
- Retirement Is a Beginning
- Joy Sustained Us
- On Building a New Home
2016 · 114
- 82 Days of Retirement
- The We Generation
- Happiness Is a Choice
- The Joy of Creating
- To My Amarillo College Family
- Wide Open Spaces
- Kinder Test, Part II: Dreams Are Powerful Things
- The Kinder Test: Part I
- A Great Time To Be Alive
- Missing Four-legged Friends
- Visiting the Past
- Making Me Younger?
- In Praise of Spontaneity
- Age Power
- Still an Adventurer
- Keeping It Real
- Still a Camp Director
- The Dumaflache in the Drawer
- Banana Pudding
- Desire Fulfilled
- Hope Deferred
- Do You Know Your Number?
- Welcome to Part II
- Rush-hour in Houston
- Fitness Conquers All
- Never Too Late
- The Joy of Work
- Catching the Rain
- Retirement Myth #1
- Constants
- Retired Husband Syndrome
- Earl
- 50 Days of Retirement
- The Problem with Golf
- I’m a Future
- Let’s Play!
- Forgetting What Lies Behind
- West Texas Sunrise
- Saving the Best till Last
- Can’t Leave a Calling
- My Golfing Debut
- Your Old Men Will Dream Dreams
- Best Years Too
- The Retirement Crisis
- Jack
- Gratefulness
- Horny Toads
- More Friends, More Often
- Murky Dreams
- Artistically Challenged
- Unexplored Terrain
- Elder-escence
- Through a Child’s Eyes
- Repacking
- Routine with Spontaneity
- Little Miracles
- Who’s in Charge?
- Atalaya Mountain
- Santa Fe
- Build It and We Will Come
- On Staying Put
- Inertia
- Can’t Make This Stuff Up
- Back to Normal
- That’s What Friends Do
- Pray for Williance
- Gap Time
- My Mood Adjuster
- Retirement +15
- The Old Must Pass
- Today Is His Birthday
- A Little Bit Adventure Junkie
- I Love Naps
- The Joy Effect
- Choosing a Moniker
- A Charmed Life
- 50 Years of Stuff
- Too Much a Dreamer
- My Front Porch
- They Named Him Laughter
- Most Retirement Books Are Depressing
- Packing Memories
- It Began with a Drive in the Country
- Welcome to the Journey
- Ghosts of Graduations Past
- What Graduation Speakers Don’t Tell You
- Letting Go (2016)
- Excited about the Mystery
- Dream Job
- She Bought My Dinner: 19 class days left
- Fear of the Undone: 20 more class days
- First Teachers
- A New Dream
- Helping Students Want to Write
- The Want-to Part of Writing
- The Power of We
- Messy First Drafts
- For Jill and Becky: A Five-Year Bucket List
- Nothing Gold Can Stay
- Remember Me?
- Savoring the Moment: A Sermon for Me
- My Students, My Heroes
- Overwhelmed
- Syncing Passions
- Eschatology
- I Wish Life Had First Drafts
- Her Best Friend Fred
- Takes Faith to Write (and teach)
- Happy Birthday, Sis!
- 14 More Mondays
- Thou Shall Not Bore Thy Teacher: Paula’s Story
- Blogging through My Last Semester
- First Day Jitters
- A New Semester
2013 · 3
2012 · 17
- Walking by the Old House
- The Last Shall Be First
- Atalaya Mountain
- A Change of Plans
- Parnell, Texas
- The Wheeler Challenge
- Finishers: Lucky To Be Here
- The Finishers
- Dads
- The Importance of Place
- What if the Train Is the Destination?
- Live Huge
- More on Missing Your Train (The Day Before)
- Don’t Miss Your Train (the night before the day before)
- She Meant Business
- Seduced by a Train Whistle
- Colorado in My Backyard
2011 · 12
2010 · 33
- Perspective
- Irreplaceable
- A Tale of Two Photos
- How to Relocate a Rattler
- Come on Baby, Let’s Do the Twist
- A Teacher’s Legacy
- Happy 40th, Janet
- He Has My Back
- An Attempt on Mt. Elbert
- Bears
- Little Switzerland
- A Brother’s Influence
- Fireflies
- Shared Memories
- On Thunderstorms
- On Sunrises
- Dad Died This Morning
- The Amarillo Gold Sox, Spring Thunderstorms, and My Brother Craig
- Who Put the Bomp
- Cooking Out
- Blessed Are the Worriers
- Harmonica Debut
- Show Me a Sign for Good
- My Dad and Mentor
- Recent Reading
- He Is Risen!
- The In-Between Day
- Sunday’s Comin’
- Best April Fool’s Prank Ever
- How Hard Can It Be?
- Davy Crockett
- George and Me
- Saying Goodbye