Summertime always seems to be the time of year when business slows down, the sun stays out later, the opportunity to play more golf becomes a distinct possibility…and I injure myself. Two summers ago we got rear-ended while on vacation in Kauai, and it threw my whole neck and right shoulder out of whack. Just [...]
There are hundreds, even thousands of things those parenting books don’t bother to tell you about. Enough to fill a few books with, to be sure. The books all cover the basics, the things you would expect to need to expect. Few of them have broken ground to cover that which is unspoken truth, those [...]
Without doubt, I am no uber-geek, but I know enough to get by at most San Francisco cocktail parties. I do about 95% of my own IT, and run a pretty tight ship when it comes to security on our home network. So when my Internet connection simply disappeared last week, I assumed it was [...]
Tomorrow marks one year since Tolstoy passed away. I am constantly amazed at how much I still miss the guy. When food hits the ground, I still immediately think, “Oh, Tol is going to love that.” When we get home from a trip, I still hesitate coming up the stairs, wondering how pissed he is [...]
Spotted on a gate around the corner from our house: Two funny things about this: 1) I don’t think they even have a dog, 2) That German Shepard moves pretty fast for such visible hip dysplasia.
Played Harding today with JV on a wonderful San Francisco day. The day started off completely fogged in, and burned off to a nice, windless afternoon. I was looking forward to seeing how well I could let go of focusing on performance, and simply enjoy playing golf on a beautiful course. One of the reasons [...]
A few weeks ago, Dan Patrick had Chi McBride on his AM radio sports show. Chi (sounds like “Shy”) does one of the best Christopher Walken impressions on the planet, and goes on to tell three classic Walken stories. I ganked the audio and cut it down to just the good stuff: click here to [...]
In the final chapters of Gallwey’s book, he lays out the true core of his approach, and asks the question at the heart of the matter: why do you play golf? I would love to answer that question to the effect of, “I enjoy it,” or “I love the challenge of golf.” And while they [...]