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Showing posts with label track. Show all posts
Showing posts with label track. Show all posts
Friday, April 4, 2025

I miss the feeling of flying around the track

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High school track and field season is underway here in Ohio. My dad always said he didn't mind watching my cold October football games n...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

One thing I learned at the Olympics: We should let the Dutch run the world

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Last week I was in Paris with my wife Terry, my daughter Elissa, and Elissa's boyfriend Mark. We were there for the Olympics, and other ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

A year later, I finally turned off phone notifications from my now-graduated son's track coach

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One of the advantages of being a parent in the 2020s vs. the 1980s, I imagine, is the ease of communication with your child's teachers a...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

One of my chief responsibilities these days is chauffeuring our suddenly busy 15-year-old

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At some point during their high school years, many kids find themselves – for the first time ever – in need of a calendar to keep track of t...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

My wife and I have been sitting in the bleachers since 1999

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All five of our children have participated in sports of one kind or another. The result has been that, over more than two decades, Terry and...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Life isn't a sprint, it's...well, yeah, actually it is a sprint

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Between the ages of 13 and 18, I ran competitive track and field. I was a sprinter, and I was actually pretty fast. Not "state cham...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Does The Calendar rule your life, too?

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Our life is controlled by The Calendar. This is both a good and a bad thing. It's good in that The Calendar, by which I mean the lar...