Category: Life

Utah – Day 1, 2

Utah – Day 1, 2

It was rough getting out of Newark.  A freak snowstorm delayed the landing of the plane that I was supposed to board and the subsequent snow buildup necessitated de-icing.  I touched down about three and a half hours behind schedule. ...

Forgive And Forget

Forgive And Forget

I really think that one of the big keys to success and happiness in life is to be able to forgive and forget.  With some people, it just comes naturally and easily; they can move on and mend relationships without...

In Memory of MLK…

In Memory of MLK…

In celebration of this day, I think it’s worth the time to listen to a recording of his historic speech. Could the civil rights movement have had a better, more visionary, and stronger leader than MLK?  It’s hard to believe...

More on Dean Karnazes

More on Dean Karnazes

I mentioned a short article on Dean Karnazes in the current (January, 2007) issue of Outside magazine in my previous post. There’s a great passage that I really liked: I think Western culture has things backwards.  We equate comfot with...

I Want To Dunk.

I Want To Dunk.

I have no idea why, but I woke up this morning and I thought to myself “I want to dunk” 😛 First, a little background: I’ve been playing basketball on and off during the last 10 years, some times really intensely...

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Yeah, it’s been a looooong time. First of all, happy holidays to anyone reading this (hi Mom!). Second, I know, no one likes to read excuses on blogs 😛 but I swear, I’ve been super busy and that fractured finger...

Fitting Halloween Posting

Fitting Halloween Posting

Bones?  Halloween?  Yah?  No?  Wait, I got another one: Charlie “digital”, get it? Okay, lame, I know :-). In any case, that’s my finger. That little piece of bone hanging off of my middle phalange is a chip fracture that...

Worst Day Ever.

Worst Day Ever.

We all have dreams about our own lives.  Where we see ourselves in a few years.  The kind of life we want to live.  You plan your life around these dreams so that they are dreams today, but reality tomorrow....

Finding One’s Path

Finding One’s Path

Quote from an AP article on the Nets: “We had a lot of conversations about the game itself and about his expectations about who he can become as a player,” Carter said. “At first it kind of seemed weird to...

On Leadership and Teamwork

On Leadership and Teamwork

A great quote by Joe Torre I came across in an article on A-Rod’s recent struggle: “What Jason said made me realize that I had to go at it a different way,” Torre says. “When the rest of the team...