Did you ever have a brain freeze?

You know, like when you know that you know the answer to something or you intuitively know that something is wrong or is going to happen but you go ahead and complete the action anyway and then second guess yourself for not following your gut?

Here is one I think we can all readily relate to that will illustrate my point. Read More >>

My wife, baby boy, brother-in-law and I embarked on a road trip from Phoenix to Lake Tahoe and back in a 1993 Toyota Previa mini van.

It’s a long trip (over 750 miles) during which you traverse many hundreds of miles of pretty straight boring road. Making it even more interesting are big rigs passing you in the opposite direction at such velocity that the mini van would shake and practically blow off of the road.

On the trip back from Lake Tahoe, I decided that I wanted to make it as comfortable and roomy as possible, so I strapped the cooler and the baby stroller onto the roof rack.

Well my wife liked that stroller way more than she liked my peace and contentment or her brother’s ability to have the maximum room inside the van to stretch out and relax. She was incredulous that I would do something as stupid as to strap those items onto the roof rack and she drilled me on that subject the entire trip. All 750 miles. Read More >>

One of my colleagues told me of a funny incident that happened to him the other day while he was out getting the mail with his toddler properly secured in the car seat in the back.

He stopped at the mail boxes, which are concentrated near, but not directly in front of, his house.

It was a chilly day so he had the heat on in the car. He simply stopped in front of the mail boxes and left the car running so as not to interrupt the flow of warmth to his young child.

Somehow, either he or his toddler hit the door lock button and, you guessed it … he was suddenly standing on the outside looking in at his toddler locked in his running car. Read More >>