Tips on Life in Small Bites

Stay in Our Lane   Introduction: I usually do not appreciate having any sort of restraints on my life. The double yellow lines on the road feel restrictive on one-lane country roads when there’s a slow-moving vehicle in front of me. Traveling at high speed on those one-lane roads, I know that disregarding the double yellow lines on the road to pass a slow-moving vehicle could be dangerous. I am constantly looking for the dotted yellow line on my side of the lane, so I could quickly and safely speed up and pass the slow car. “Stay in your own lane” has been an often-quoted phrase for quite a few years now. At the time, I understood it to mean that we need to mind our own business and not get overly involved in others’ affairs.  However, as I was driving on the Skyline Drive this past week in dense fog, I gained a new understanding and appreciation of this phrase. The roads were windy, and over 1,000 feet in elevation. At times, the visibility in this fog was less than 50 feet, ...