by Scout Wilkins | Jan 6, 2026 | Musings From Trail
“Is there anything you wish that I had known, when you were a child?” Mom’s Question A few weeks before she died, my mom and I were at Kaiser in Santa Rosa, for a physical checkup. My brother and I had made the decision to move mom into a memory care unit, and...
by Scout Wilkins | Dec 4, 2025 | Musings From Trail
The View from Above For years, I took people up in the air who had never flown over their home ground in a small, slow plane. Every single person—without exception—had the same response when they saw their familiar landscape from a thousand feet up: “Oh! I had...
by Scout Wilkins | Sep 20, 2025 | Musings From Trail
What happens when everyone gets to…and has to… interact as equals? How WordTrails Transforms Entire Systems Picture this: Your teenager just graduated high school. Everyone knows the family dynamics need to shift. You want to stop being “the parent who...