River of Thoughts

Imagine you are….. abandoned at three days old found in a trash can raised in a Soviet orphanage abused repeatedly by an adoptive father found freezing on the winter streets of St. Petersburg thrown in jail beaten and abused by peers forced to carry the body a young friend to the outskirts of town for burial institutionalized If I had experienced only one or two of these events, I’d break.  Fall apart.  IF I survived it, I’d need years of expensive therapy to recover even slightly. My friend Alex lived through all of this before he reached fifteen. Today, Alex […]

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Reactions to the new blog have been enthusiastic, but the thing that sticks out most to me is how each one of you brings a different perspective and asks a different question. A couple people wondered if we really moved to a new house.  Nope.  It was a metaphor.  Maybe not a very well-spelled-out one.  Sorry for that. A couple people asked if I got fired.  Quit?  Planning to quit?  Thankfully, no, I still have my stressful but important day job. To Quit or Not To Quit Even though I complain about it a lot, I have a pretty good gig.  (Yes, […]

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I do not want to move. I hate to move. Packing up all your crap in boxes, ADD-Me coming out of hiding and reading the newspaper we use to wrap our fragile items.  Throwing away treasures that you haven’t touched in years, but that you know you’ll need the moment the garbage man is gone.  Checking the house for the 17th time before you close and lock the door one last time. Moving a blog is like that too.  The big things, the words, they move easily.  They stack well in boxes, and unpack in order in the new place.  […]

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62-7 is a pretty awful way to lose. One of the worst losses in the modern NFL. Rough on the guys playing.  Rough on the fans that stayed up until the end to experience the full and amazing glory of losing big. Especially rough at 5 the next morning. But we can learn a lot from the 2011 Colts. Circumstances can take us from high to low in the blink of an eye. Losses happen. Big ones. Even in the pros. When you’re losing, you have the freedom to try a different approach. Every man (or woman, or child) on […]

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As anyone mesmerized by The Evolution of Dance knows, dance has changed over the years. Different moods characterize different eras such as social change in the sixties, technology revolution in the eighties; the dance of the time clearly reflects those moods. (Wow, can you tell i’ve been helping with way too many high school English papers??) So now there’s this thing called Dougie. Apparently, it’s so popular and engrained in teen culture that it morphed from nothing to a verb practically overnight. I asked my daughter recently what characterized Dougie. Was it a specific move, like the Moonwalk? or a […]

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