Todd Dietrich

Sometimes you just have to go with your gut. Today was one of those times. I was out doing some Geocaching and after finding the first stage I looked at my options for approaching the final stage. I tried to make a beeline for it and saw that there were high weeds, trees and what…

A friend of mine lives on the western end of the Lehigh Valley and we like to pick on her and say that she lives “halfway to Ohio” since she’s so far away from everyone. As “remote” as she may be, it’s nothing compared to some of the places I’ve been as I’ve traveled around…

Today was a perfect example of how often times the best way to learn how to do something is to be faced with it as a problem. I noticed that my tweets weren’t appearing correctly in the sidebar of my blog. Only my tweets were showing up, none of my retweets. I searched and read…

I was on a road trip out to Des Moines in June of 2009 when I had one of the best wake up calls that I can remember. I was riding along in my friend’s truck and we were almost to Pittsburgh when panic had set in. I knew I had it when I left…

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. It’s in your toothbrush, the device you’re reading this blog post on, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and most regrettably, in far too many relationships. As a kid I was taught to “be yourself” and it’s a message that I am sure others have heard, but I seem to…