Little League Lessons
“How we doing?” I asked the 12 year old pitcher staring at me with a “what are you doing here” look. “I’d be fine if Zach could catch a friggin baseball.” he replies. “I’m only here to break up the …...
View ArticleThe Reason Doesn’t Matter
If you are doing something small or large that makes a difference in someone’s life or makes the world a better place it does not matter why. You can do it out of guilt. You can do it for love. You...
View ArticleLive A Big Life
There is a scene in the movie Kingpin where Woody Harrelson’s character asks one of the decrepit, drunken pathetic looking guys sitting outside of his apartment, ” How’s life?” The sorriest looking of...
View ArticleCharlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen is obviously smart, talented and funny. He is also egotistical, self destructive and unable to be happy with himself. We all know people like that who test your patience and sadden you...
View ArticleVarsity Lessons
My son Nick had stuck with baseball and had high hopes for making the Dakota Ridge high school junior varsity team as a freshman. Always a big kid he had gotten heavy and the JV coach was not...
View ArticleThe $20 Handshake
Let’s institute the $20 handshake as a way of thanking our troops for their service to our country. I have done it twice in airports by simply getting a service person’s attention, thanking them for...
View Article1000 Miles An Hour
While driving through Kansas for the dozenth time this spring after watching my son pitch in a Jayhawk League Junior College game I thought about how – heading West- I was chasing the sun. Doing some...
View ArticleMy Big Adventure
I am standing on the dock at the Topolobompo marina in Mexico watching 6 prostitutes in high heels tiptoe single file down the pier to the panga that will take them to the larger boat awaiting their...
View ArticleSuccess and Failure
I heard Bill Parcells say “Success is never permanent – but failure can be.” There are several lessons in that statement. One is to never rest on your laurels – because while you are - someone is out...
View ArticleIT’S LATER THAN YOU THINK
One of Muhammad Ali’s thoughts in an Esquire interview a few years back was that no matter the situation— it’s later than you think. So if you have been waiting for the perfect time to start a project,...
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