“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” That quote, believe it or not, comes from Helen Keller, and it has always resonated with me. Most men (and women), as Thoreau so succinctly put it, lead lives of quiet desperation. But why? Why are we so afraid of risk-taking? Why are we afraid of going after what we...
Though I learned how to ride a motorcycle one summer while living in Greece, fall has always been my favorite time to ride. The humidity is gone and the air feels cooler, fresher. But there’s something else to it. There has always been a sense of seasonal urgency to my rides – a knowledge that summer has slipped away and...