Category: Lessons
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Last year, I was part of a relay team that tackled the Men’s Health Urbanathlon. I completed the anchor leg, 3-odd miles with a set of obstacles including running up and down CitiField and scaling an 8-foot wall, and thought, I should do the entire thing next year. Well, it’s about nine weeks from next year…
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Virginia and I had a wonderful, wonderful time in Vermont, visiting our friends Ken Rainey and Betsy Plume at their little bit of paradise that goes by the name of Trail’s End, on the shores of Lake Willoughby, in northeast Vermont. Beautiful days, gorgeous nights, the company of Ken and Betsy, their families, and…
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We were at a nephew’s college graduation party this weekend. He finished up classes in the winter and has been working most of 2014. It’s great to see these Once Little Ones becoming Big Ones, and even Self-Sufficient Big Ones. Still, it’s a sign of the times, I think, that my nephew is still living…
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There are at least two distressing things about this photo.
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This has been a week about loss. Went to Phillies game last Wednesday night with friends and it had the feeling of a hangover, of waking up to find the girl you found so fascinating the night before isn’t how you remembered, that the window has shut on the Good Times. Less than 20,000 unenthusiastic…
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After Monday’s snow, Wednesday brought the tink-tinkling of sound. By 7:30 am, we lost power, and a smallish tree fell across our driveway. By 11 am, our backup power to the sump pumps had given out and the water was coming in to the basement. Kelly, and a cadre of his friends, pitched in to…
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We dropped Pete off at college Saturday. This time, it was at Temple University. Temple was Pete’s first choice coming out of high school, but he just missed being accepted then. He transferred after the fall semester of his sophomore year, and will pick up his studies at Temple’s School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.…
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You know, I used to laugh at this clip of Allen Iverson (see bottom). Iverson, one of the all-time gamers, explodes in a season-ending press conference when he’s asked about his—how to say this?—inconsistent practice habits. He says practice likes it’s a cuss word. He says it about 20 times in 142 seconds. “We’re talking about practice.…
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Used to be, in my teens and 20s, working out meant the gym and weights, the heavier the better. I still have a bench downstairs, but the amazing thing to me (now 48) is how little I use it—especially in conjunction with my barbell and weights. These days, when I use weights, they’re mostly dumb…
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Virginia told me she wanted to invite a few people over before Christmas. She told me it wouldn’t be a lot of people, that nobody would accept our invitation. Well, she was wrong. Almost 40 people joined us for a very fun but not small at all holiday party on the Sunday before Christmas. It…
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One of the rites of late summer in recent years has been a trip to a friends’ lake house northeast of Scranton (in Waymart) for an overnight. Good food, good friends, lots of lake action—it’s always a blast. Below are some photos from this year’s fun. And we all decided that one night was so…
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