Life Lessons Carson Valley teaches my kids on Spring Break: "Don't wait," he said. I can't remember his exact words after that, his wisdom mixed with the wind, the nay of the horses, the crunch of earth beneath our boots. It was along the lines of life is short. People put off their dreams, or traveling for too long. Sometimes, you just have to go for it. This is a man who truly follows his passion.

It's ironic that my husband and I are both bloggers given that we met back in 1995 on this new little thing called AOL.

Within an hour of JD meeting Z: "So you take a Flamingo, one of...