Throwback: Browns Football Misery is Timeless It's season-opening Sunday once again in the NFL, and that means a full slate of aerial battles, bone-jarring hits (as long as they're head's-up), ankle-breaking jukes and coaches popping a forehead-vein, usually in the postgame presser. Oh, and renewed heartbreak for Cleveland Browns fans. I am under few illusions... Continue Reading →
Dadding with Distinction - A Week at Scout Camp There's a quote above the basement fireplace hearth in the administration building at Many Point Scout Camp that's striking for its relative inaccessibility (in the basement, after all), and for how aptly it sums up the Boy Scouting experience for me. Aaaaaaand, the frustrating thing,... Continue Reading →
In Praise of the Golden Retriever, Best Dog of All When I was a young(er) man, I had a four-word concept of what a perfect life would be. Or, at least the end of a perfect day. (I also had the notion that my perfect house would start by building it around a hot tub.... Continue Reading →
Passing the Pigskin: 10 Lessons in Football from an Ohio Father to his Chicago-born Son It's been a bit of a long interval of work and travel and mad-late-summer-rushing, and more of an absence from this space than I'd wanted. But there's nothing like the rituals and rhythms of the coming Fall to put purpose... Continue Reading →
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