Potential: Living up to it, finding it, and letting it go for kinetics

The kids and I looked at a house for sale in Burns. It has potential for us to be closer to school and work. Not that we don’t love our neighbors and friends in Albin, but life would be more convenient and less money would be spent on fuel if we lived in Burns.

Physics 101: The closer you are to the object in motion, the less energy you will spend catching it.

The house in question is a “fixer upper.” Or maybe it would be better to call it a “tear it down before it falls down.”

Not many people have loved this house or spent much energy on it. The man who lived there for many years left and the...