by Sara Baker | Dec 10, 2025 | Articles
My wife is a little disappointed. We are recent empty-nesters, and for the first time in years, there is no one home to look forward to her Advent calendar full of little notes and candy. Still, her disappointment isn’t anything like the disappointment that Europeans...
by Sara Baker | Dec 3, 2025 | Articles
This year my family and I spent Thanksgiving a little differently; we traded turkey and cold weather in the mid-west for sunshine and sand in Cancun. It was our first time traveling out of the country for the holiday, and stepping into a new setting offered some...
by Sara Baker | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles
I was pheasant hunting in South Dakota with my boys this last weekend, and we frequently found ourselves on roads with deep mud holes. If it weren’t for our four-wheel drive, we would have been in a mess. Broadening traction is good for mud and even better for the...
by Sara Baker | Nov 19, 2025 | Articles
The neighboring town near where I grew up has an old Missouri Pacific railroad roundhouse. It was already out of use when I was a boy, but it still fascinated me that big steam engines would be driven onto a turntable and rotated around to change directions. There are...
by Sara Baker | Nov 12, 2025 | Articles
Several summers ago, I hiked to the summit of Mount Bierstadt in Colorado—one of the state’s more popular fourteeners. The climb up was challenging yet straightforward: a wide trail, a steady pace, and clear footing. But the real adventure came next. From Bierstadt’s...
