It's been unseasonably warm for February in Missouri. February used to be a bitter month. Biting winds, ice storms, snowfall, and between those dramatic swings, there was just cold.  Now, in 2017, Spring seems to have peaked it's head over the horizon a little early. We've been wearing flip flops and tank tops the past couple weeks. I'm a cold weather creature by nature. So I d...

My daughter Amelie is finally getting to the age where she can enjoy different events and holidays. This Easter we headed to my mom's house for the weekend. We went to the St. Louis Zoo, where Amelie could actually run around and check out the animals (she's real into animals right now, as all almost-two-year-olds are). More on that in a later post. She was also really into ...

I haven't been skiing in five years. I was 23 the last time we went. At the time, I was working at a pizza restaurant, Shakespeare's Pizza. The job required me to be on my feet all day, staying very active and mobile. I wasn't necessarily "in shape" like I had been in high school, when I played soccer year round. But I was in shape enough to be able to brave the slopes with con...