“Monet is only an eye. Yet what an eye.” – Cezanne My youngest daughter swam in a meet over the weekend. We parked our chairs at the side of the pool where the swimmers pull themselves out of the water and walk back around to the blocks during warm ups. I was wearing a tee shirt depicting a human hand and a dog paw engaged in a fist bump. A hundred kids pulled themselves out of the water in front of us and…
September 1979, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I was thirteen. The LSU Tigers and their legendary coach Charlie McClendon were hosting the nation’s #1 team, the USC Trojans, in Death Valley. We had tickets to the game. We’d moved to Baton Rouge that summer from Florida. The Gators were terrible that year, and LSU was in the SEC, so we paid attention. The Tigers weren’t all that great that year either, but on this Saturday they had the #1 team in the country…
Got up this morning happy to see sun, after a miserable day watching soccer in the cold rain yesterday. The good guys won that game 7-0, pushing their record to 6-0 on the year. So this morning I throw soccer girl in the car with a bunch of snacks and a gallon of coffee and we head to Burlington for a 1 pm game. Burlington’s far. Traffic wasn’t terrible and we arrived on time. The game was tough. The bad…
Not everyone is creative. Some people are sharers. Consumers. Distributers. It’s ok. It’s not all that to be creative anyway. And before I get bitch slapped, yes, creativity is innate in all of us. It’s not like an exclusive club reserved for people with nose rings and purple hair. So yes, even if you consume and share way more than you actually create, you’re still technically creative so … [holds hands out in front of him] But I’m going to guess…
The doors in our old house are sticking. We’ve had a couple weeks of drizzly cool weather and well, that’s what happens to old houses made of wood. “How do you fix it?” my aunt asked. “You don’t. You can’t change the weather,” I said. “You just deal with sticky doors until it gets dry again.” “Well that’s ridiculous,” she said. You see, we are a culture that believes there’s a solution to every problem. Because most of the problems…
I do not get the attraction of a Fitbit. Maybe because I wear no jewelry. Not even a watch. Ok, I wear a wedding ring but that’s to keep women away. Anyway, the kid has one. It cost $85. She used her babysitting money, and I paid half. She’s 14 and has a washboard stomach. Why does she need to count her steps? She plays soccer. She’s running on a field 5 days a week. She walks back and forth across…
