If there is one thing my dad drilled into his children through both words and deeds, it was the virtue of discipline. In my short time as a father, it is perhaps the thing with which I struggle the most. Growing up, my dad constantly drilled me and my five siblings on the importance of discipline. He led through example by leaving for work most ...

Today is a nice rest day between the hills of yesterday and the mountains of tomorrow. In all my years of reading guidebooks, I’ve never come across a line so intensely condescending  and so immediately soul-crushing as this one. It was Day 2 of the Camino Primitivo, an ancient pilgrimage route across the northwestern corner of Spain. We were...