I’m constantly amazed by the connections Ryder is able to make, as well as his hilarious sense of humor. While we were getting ready to put Ryder to sleep tonight, Michele hoisted Ryder over the bed-rails straight into the middle of the bed, declaring, “Wow, you flew into bed with the greatest of ease!” “I [...]
It has been almost a year to the day since JV, Welly and I last played 18 at Indian Valley Golf Course in Novato. I’d like to think that my game has made some significant improvements in the past year, but I’m looking down at our scorecard thinking, “If this were poker, I’d have killed [...]
7/17/07: Post 1.018 Dogs can smell death; you can see it in their eyes – especially at the pound. Tolstoy could, for sure, and he was thankful as all hell when a familiar face came to get him at the San Francisco animal shelter. The year was 1994, and I had just driven across the [...]
1/23/07: Post 1.017 It must have been the way we were dressed, and the fact that all three of us got out of our car and made our way over the garage attendant. It was a nice day, and Michele was looking cute – dressed for the weather – Ryder looked dapper as ever, and [...]
11/27/06: Post 1.015 One of the things I’ve always looked forward to in parenting are the toys. I’ve been waiting to introduce my child to Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs and Evil Knievel wind-up stunt cycles since I was a kid. What I hadn’t been counting on are the incredible toys that have been invented in [...]
11/22/06: Post 1.014 I was afraid this would happen. It’s one of the reasons I didn’t want to start trying to write regularly for my site. Sooner or later, in my life, timelines tighten. Work picks up, life gets crazy and the first thing I’m willing to let go of is standing at my computer [...]
10/6/06: Post 1.013 Before I found my path as a fundraising auctioneer I worked in the wonderful world of liquidations. A client that did live and online auctions convinced me to leave my marketing consultancy behind and brought me in-house to run their interactive marketing. The company was relatively small, and it was a requirement [...]
9/27/06: Post 1.012 I flew to Anchorage on United last Thursday, and I was very excited to discover that United now has a direct flight. Getting in and out of Anchorage used to involve a layover in Seattle, and no matter how short the layover the total trip was never less than eight hours. Now, [...]
9/10/06: Post 1.011 I have been meaning to take up golf for the better part of a decade now, but haven’t been sure that my body would be able to take it very well. Golf isn’t the most impactful game, but it does involve a lot of truncal rotation that I was not sure would [...]
8/29/06: Post 1.010 How I interact with my entertainment is an extremely personal, deep-rooted relationship. My television viewing habits are ingrained, dating back to the formative “on the couch in Tahoe” years of my early twenties. When one lives in a house of nine other testoserone-driven males one quickly learns how to “drive” the viewing [...]