I’ve been enjoying some early before-the-kids-wake-up bike rides this summer.  My usual route takes me over a bridge which hovers over the enormous churning Missouri River.

For me, riding over the Missouri River bridge by myself early in the morning is about as daring as life gets!  My morning bike ride, when I take it, might as well be Mt. Everest.

I used to do truly dangerous things without even noticing that they were dangerous.  I did them without much of a second thought.

That was before I had kids and before…

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The Magic House…

A magnificent old house in St. Louis filled with everything a child (and adult) longs to play with but doesn’t realize yet.  There is nothing commonplace or boring.  Unique excitement awaits around every corner and in every nook and cranny.  A three- story slide, a secret room behind a bookcase, a shadow room, a static electricity ball that makes your hair stand up on end.  I could go on.

I’ve been going there since I was a kid and I just went with my kids and one of my mommy friends two days ago.  Every time I’ve…

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