I’m not sure when it started, but at some point in my lifetime, multitasking became cool. The whole concept of doing a bunch of things at once went from what unorganized, harried people did to keep their heads above water — all that screaming and dog-paddling and trying not to drown — to something that… Read More Multitasking my ***
I have been blogging off and on (shut up! about the off) for a couple years now. I like it, when I actually get around to it. It scratches an itch. I appreciate it, too. I admire those who do it regularly and do it well. This stuff is not easy, you know. It’s a lot… Read More Working without a net
In golf, as in much of just general, everyday, running-around life, rhythm is important. Rhythm is critical. Rhythm, to paraphrase an old Steve Martin gag, is. Ever. Y. … Thing. I was on the driving range last week, getting ready for my annual golf outing with my brothers, and I was struggling with my swing.… Read More Rhy … thm
A few quick updates to the ol’ blog at the beginning of a new year. Watch your step: *** For years in our house, we have celebrated birthday weeks. One day of cake and ice cream won’t do for us. We need a full seven days to get down that 12-inch fudge-covered yellow-cake monstrosity and a couple half-gallons of… Read More Starting again
I grew up on newspapers. My dad worked for the Middletown [Del.] Transcript as a young man, setting type and running the press. Years later, he’d return to the Transcript. It was his last job, too. When we moved to Willow Grove, we had the Delaware State News delivered to our house every day, slipped into a… Read More Pick up the paper
I’m on the elliptical Friday morning, sweating like a fat New Yorker on the D train at 5 o’clock in late July — I’m really, really sweaty, is what I’m saying — and I look up at the TV and see the calm, cool, preternaturally well-groomed Mike Pence on the Today show set. (Pence’s hair… Read More Sweating it out
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