People are often surprised to learn that I live in an old house on a postage stamp size lot in urban, downtown Grand Rapids. What they don’t realize is that my home is much larger than that 40’x100’ lot and my 1,400 square foot house.

A few years back, my primary care physician asked me, “Do you want me to write a note to your wife Julie saying I am prescribing a couple of hours of fly fishing each week?”

We laughed. But Steve was serious.