I was reading the story of Kaye Cowher’s death yesterday and found it to be both sad and inspiring. Kaye was the wife of former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher and died over the weekend from skin cancer. The story was a bit more poignant to me not because I knew her personally but because […]
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The Ice Cream Truck
I was out tonight at a local park for my kid’s tennis lesson in a part of town that is surrounded by lower income housing. This in and of itself is not really that interesting. What is interesting is that for the entire time I was there ( about two hours ), there was the […]
Execution In Pakistan Hits Home
I received an email yesterday from a good friend of mine letting me know that a man whom I had helped to raise money for last year had been murdered for blasphemy in Pakistan. You can read about the story here. To say that I was overcome with grief is an understatement. You see, back […]
The Two Faces Of New York
In the last few days, two legends of New York have passed away. George Steinbrenner, owner of the Yankees for the last 38 years, died suddenly this morning from a massive heart attack. Bob Sheppard, the voice of the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for over 50 years, died on Sunday. As I reflected […]
Marriage Material?
For most of us, there are few decisions bigger in life than selecting who we marry. I remember reading once that the best way to know if you can live with the person you are considering marrying is to drive across the country with them and spend at least 2-3 days in the car alone. […]
Taking time
It’s Monday July 5th, and I had a great weekend. Saturday I spent re-insulating the room over my garage ( or should I say insulating it because it was never done by the previous guy ), and then went to a friend’s house for dinner. Yesterday we had a different group of friends over for […]
Clotheslines
I get excited about small things in life. I have discovered that little changes done consistently over time tend to produce more meaningful change ( at least for me ) than the radical, sweeping changes. This weekend we put up a clothesline. Big deal, right? Well, in a way it is, as crazy as that […]
A Dying Breed
I spent yesterday afternoon stuck in the attic space adjacent to the room over our garage. It was close to 95 degrees outside, and probably 120 or 130 in the space I was in. I had put off fixing the insulation in this space during the spring when it was pleasant, and so as a […]
The Emasculated Male
When I got on the plane to come home yesterday, I happened to get in front of a father and his ~2 year old son sitting right behind me. Following is a transcript of the monologue the father had with his son for the last five minutes before takeoff. “Jackson, time to sit down.” “Jackson, […]
More And Less List Update
At the beginning of this year, I put together a list of things that I was looking to change this year. I called it my ‘More And Less List’ because each element had an element of doing more of something, and less of something else. I am half way through the year, and so I […]