Once I prowled this “wild” country and took amazing photographs. I saw amazing things like monkeys and dolphins and sleeping sloths in trees. Toucans, like the one here, seemed to come right up to me and pose. What have I become?

My days of adventure have given way to the interior of hospital halls and my wild side is, sadly, released at the mechanic’s garage as I rev the engine to see if the injectors are clean. These are my adventures in paradise. It’s as crazy as it gets, for now.

I like to believe I have ditched the wild side for awhile as I run after that real pot of gold - the one that holds the laugh of a healthy child, a walking child, and a child that will one day get to grow big enough to discover his own wild side.