5 Kids, 1 Wife (and 1 Grandchild)

Until recently when I sold them, I owned three saxophones: an alto, a baritone, and a 100-year-old C melody. I kept them in my office/comput...

(NOTE: This post was published five years ago today on September 5, 2016 . I went back to it to see if it all still holds true. The answer i...

I have previously brought up the fact that, on my morning walks/runs, there is a relatively fixed list of people I encounter . From the star...

For many years, I was a runner. Not a runner who would win road races or anything, but depending on the size of the race, for a few years th...

I have long thought of myself as a runner. Some people don't think they're runners because they don't do marathons, or they ...

Harry Callahan was right. Here are mine: If you're giving me directions, do not refer to points on the compass unless I'm traveli...

(1) Learn how to speak Latin. This is mostly because, like the guy who complains about not winning the lottery but never actually buys a ti...

...but until then I can only envy the Apostle Paul, whose words I appropriated for the title of this post. This Is Me When I Go Out and D...

You know that whole thing about getting 10,000 steps a day and how important it is? Yeah, that's actually real. Not the exact "...

Once every month or so, I agonize over whether I'm properly taking care of my body. This takes the form of me checking out a few libra...

The horrible events at this week's Boston Marathon broke my heart, for reasons obvious and not so obvious. The obvious stuff is readily...

I run. That's what I do for exercise -- I run. Some people don't like running. It's too boring, they say, or their knees can...