To celebrate our anniversaries, my wife and I have agreed to alternate between romantic getaways and outdoor adventures. She, the hopeless romantic, prefers the former while I, the hopeless, prefer the latter, but we both just really prefer to be together. Two years ago, we celebrated by camping and canoeing the Greenbrier River. Last year,…
I’ve debated several different ways to write this post. As my first “off–topic post” in well over a year, I’d like to get it right. I’ve had a few false starts and scrapped first drafts – none of which were what I would consider worthy of publishing even on a humble blog such as this. …
For those of you new to SmoothingIt.com, those that may have become followers because of my posts about parenting, fishing, camping, canoeing, or spending time in the backwoods, I owe you an explanation for what is about to happen on SmoothingIt.com. You see, something changes in me every fall. To most easily describe this transformation,…
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