About ten miles into my workout on Sunday, I had the urge to slow down and take it easy. It was the first really warm and sunny day of spring and the breeze had morphed into an annoyingly brutal headwind. I was pushing on pace…
Yeah, it’s Bahston callin’. You ahh numba W27 for the Marathon this yeah. Stew ova that for a month and see ya in Beantown. Like the photo? Speaking of 27, at his rookie training camp, Bobby Orr wore number 27, too! Maybe that’s why it…
Last weekend I engaged in what some traditional wheelchair sports aficionados might consider to be questionable behavior. I won’t mislead you or try to sugarcoat my actions at all…I lined up at the start of a marathon not in a racing wheelchair but in a…
Aaahhh the dead of winter. The time between the holidays and the first signs of spring have always been a bit grounding for me. The days pass quickly but time moves slowly. My energy level varies like the temperature and when it’s cold, I seem…
Aaahhh, the New Year…it’s that special time when we promise ourselves to do better, make significant changes in our lives and generally hit the “restart” button. Every year, I take a few minutes around the holidays to jot down a few thoughts that I hope…
Christmas is less than two weeks away… Fall has turned to winter and the temperature has dropped.The bright colors of fall have morphed into mono shades of brown.The weekday commute, for all intents and purposes, bookends the darkness of the night and the sunlight, when…
The always informative and practical Popular Mechanics says these are the Top 100 skills a man should be able to master. Why do I find this stuff interesting? Anyway, as close as I can figure, I score an 82…not too bad I think considering I’m…
4 days to go until I enter the realm of serious long distance pain. I CAN’T WAIT! I borrowed this quote from a friend – thanks Tripp – and I have begun to use it as fuel as I get psyched to enter the House…
Thought I’d share just a few of my latest thoughts…The sign of maturity is the ability to move ahead with uncertainty.I think kittens enter their “terrible two’s” on day 1 and have the uncanny ability to stay there for as long as they want despite…
Behold…The Top 25 Things Vanishing from America! Call me old fashioned, nostalgic or just plain old but there are a few items on this list that I’ll never let slip from my life (or at least from my memory). Who could ever forget the drive-in…