I didn’t realize how much I’d learned from Dick Bolles until the day Darrell sent me to the store to buy a new oil filter for our car. I almost burst into tears trying to make sense out of those charts! Before the Parachute workshop I would’ve berated myself: “You have an engineering degree. You can’t figure out what oil filter to buy?” Now I just think: “You have lots of skills. This isn’t one of them.”

It used to really bother me that everyone I love couldn’t attend a Parachute workshop, too. But now you can. I hope you’ll consider it.

Some people divide their lives into two parts--the time before they got married, for example, and what came after. Not me. (Sorry Darrell!) Meeting Dick was the turning point. I’d like to think I dive into each new experience with more playfulness now. I try to remember, daily, that it isn’t so much what happens as the meaning you find, the person you become, and the fun you squeeze out of every moment.