If your Geeklings are getting tired of Geocaching, and you’re looking for something a little more challenging for them, then it’s time you gave some thought to Orienteering. The basic idea of the sport is that you’re given a map with a sequence of navigational checkpoints, and then you race ...

Do not laugh. We admit that that Dads here at DadLabs have not always set a sterling example when it comes to health and fitness. All you have to do is look back in the DadLabs catalog to find countless episodes featuring ursine hosts lumbering around the set, pausing only to ...

Somehow, I’m on the track an hour before dawn, a thick neoprene sleeve on my lower left leg, a bulky knee brace on my right. My gate is somewhere between shambling and wince-inducing. I feel like a newbie, like I did almost three years and three thousand miles ago when ...

You know you should be getting more exercise, but you just can’t motivate yourself to run. Well, thankfully there are some zombies who are happy to help you out. The Zombie Apocalypse Run will be held the Saturday before Halloween at Lee Farms in Tualatin, Oregon (a bit south of Portland). ...

I have three children. I am busy. I woke up the other day and realized I was also overweight. I blamed it on being busy because of the three children. After thinking about this excuse for a while, I had to admit that the reason for my obesity was not ...

If you are experiencing a midlife crisis, I have a strong recommendation: have or acquire a seven-year-old. I am grateful to have to explain my various 40-something compulsions to my second grader. Kids of this age are keen observers and quite curious. Under the barrage of their questions, the crisis-haver ...

Seven years ago I chose to have my leg amputated because I was confident that the technology in prosthetics could give me a much better shot at an active life than my deformed foot ever could. Now that I’ve entered the world of amputees, I’m seeing more and more people ...

I have an odd-shaped head and funny-shaped ears. This doesn’t usually cause me too many problems in the technology sphere, apart from headphones of course. Being a runner, I’m always on the lookout for in-ear headphones I can use when I’m running. Although my wife seems to be able to use ...

An elementary school in Maryland that was encountering discipline problems with the students recently came up with a solution that “ran circles” around their expectations. In recent years, the staff at Orchard Grove Elementary School in Frederick, Maryland, noted a steady increase in discipline problems at the school, with up to ...

An elementary school in Maryland that was encountering discipline problems with the students recently came up with a solution that “ran circles” around their expectations. In recent years, the staff at Orchard Grove Elementary School in Frederick, Maryland, noted a steady increase in discipline problems at the school, with up to ...