Huge thanks to Kia for setting up my 12-year-old golf prodigy with a private lesson this month ahead of the Kia Classic LPGA Tournament. The problem is, despite the naturally beautiful swing, my oldest daughter doesn’t enjoy golfing. But man, look at that follow through. Scrumptious.
This golf story needed a rewrite before the first sentence had been put down because even with the most radiant light there are shadows. Mine was a childhood spent in Payne Stewart style knickers (possibly the origin point of the Bogle cuff) walking upwind to avoid the long tail of […]
It’s less a discovery than it is a giving up of belief. My family is standing on the precipice of a strange new world, a world in which Santa is a fictional character and 100% of all gifts nestled neatly under the tree are dutifully purchased from local stores or […]
I’ve written it many times before, here and elsewhere, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but that profoundly simple Frederick Douglass quote has been my mantra for decades and as such, it is a line I deliver often today […]
There are two handfuls of crabgrass sprouting relentlessly from the jagged cracks in the foundation where the driveway holds hands with the weathered brick walkway guiding footsteps to the front door of our home. This is a tram stop now, the visitor’s center and restrooms are up that path a […]
Two young women, two silhouettes, ready for adventure, together, hand in hand, with the whole of the wild west out in front of them as they stand beneath the St. Louis Arch.
Greatness. Sweetness. Love. Intelligence. Humor. Curiosity. Wonder. Nothing but light. May she never stop seeing what I see in her right now this minute inside and out of a hall of mirrors.
He blew in with the wind, very early on an otherwise unremarkable Sunday morning, and for nearly an hour he answered the phones of a doctor’s office, natural history-ish museum, King Tut’s residence in ancient Egypt, and ‘The Crumblers’ factory where they, um, crumble stuff. The voice of the famously […]
