The wonderful, unseasonably HOT weather this weekend has left me with a few basic observations. #1 Even if rattle snakes don’t move right away, they can still be very much alive and very dangerous. #2 In this weather grocery stores are disproportionally filled with people buying cold beer, white wine…
Treasured Ordeals, Thoughts on Old Comrades By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories, so many bad times endured together, so many quarrels, reconciliations, heartfelt impulses. Friendships like that cannot be reconstructed. If you plant an oak,…
Earl Lloyd Was All Heart
Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Lloyd passed on today at the age of 86. He was the first black player to appear on the court in the NBA in 1950 and later became the 4th black head coach in the NBA. Along with many other great Americans of his generation,…
Home with SNL…
My bi-coastal hero, Robert Frost once said, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” There’s something about the 40 years of SNL that makes so many of us feel @ home when we watch it. I am thankful for the brave…
A Serious Question on Presidents Day
We honor past presidents because they helped make our imperfect but great country even greater. A serious question for each of us… What am I doing today, tomorrow or the day after to make our country greater? You needn’t do great things, only do the good things that you do…
In the mean time
From a top the peak of Black Mountain, after a playful, timeless, walk about, I spied a couple of all weather tracks in the distance, it got me to thinking…after a 17 year layoff what kinda speed did the old wheels stills have? The thought wouldn’t go away…. No pressure,…
Better Days
Behind every “good run” and every “great chapter” is an ocean of hard work, a string of lessons learned and pile of painful losses scattered across the streets of our past. No matter where you find yourself today (high I hope, or low), keep covering ground, know that this is…
A Stolen Kiss, a Pat on the Tush and the Evening News
As I rolled along after dark on the back streets of East UC, I found myself mesmerized by the gorgeous show of lights, elated beyond measure with every step of the jog I was on and intoxicated by the wintery smells coming from the chimneys and the local kitchens. I…
Follow Your Dreams
Many moons ago I sat in a technical writng class at SDSU, 2 months before I would hit the work force. A colorful and sage professor asked, what would you like to do for a profession when you graduate, (we were working on cover letters)? I said, well, I’d like…
Seasons, Days and Moments
There are seasons, days and moments in your life when you look around at the life you have engineered and take stock in the blessing you’ve been endowed with and think, “it’s perfect.” Not perfect like a string of good luck, no challenges, no death, no disappointment, no life can…