There’s more food on the table. Have another plate. If it’s Super Bowl Sunday you’ll ruin your team’s chances if you don’t gorge yourself. The barbecued little sausages won’t eat themselves. Grab a toothpick. Homemade Buffalo wings? Right there.
POWER COUPLE OF THE LAST NFL GAME OF THE YEAR
February 11, 2024 by
Power Couple? You and who you’re with. But there are others of note, especially today. What day? Super Bowl Day, or the last time my wife says, “Is there a game on, a big game, a REALLY BIG GAME,” dripping with fake enthusiasm. My answer (with authentic hype-man energy): “They’re all big, honey. It’s the […]
STORY MEDICINE AND THE CURE
February 2, 2024 by
Story medicine is what you see and hear. Think of it like going out for music: Is it, “Let’s get tickets and go see Taylor Swift?” Or, “Let’s get tickets to hear Taylor Swift?” It’s both. Around here we call that, “The Deuce.”
INSIGHTFUL AGING TAKES PRACTICE
January 23, 2024 by
Insightful aging? Oh yeah, I’ve got insight. It’s not such a reach when you see people leaving the party way too soon. Once you’re done, you’re done, then the question is how will you be remembered? So how will you be remembered? How do you want to be remembered?
ANXIETY TODAY: WHAT IF . . . ?
January 22, 2024 by
Anxiety today is nothing new, but plenty of new people experience it. First it’s one thing, then another, until it’s everything all the time. And it never slows down, never stops. Then what?
SELF-TALK SECRET? YOU’RE NOT THAT BAD
January 21, 2024 by
Self-talk proves one thing: You’re an easy sell if you talk yourself into trouble. Then what? Talk yourself out of trouble. What did you think? And that’s where opinions differ.
OREGON SPORTS ILLUSTRATED COVERS AND MORE
January 20, 2024 by
Oregon sports didn’t begin with Steve Prefontaine, but he was the first Oregonian on the cover of Sports Illustrated. At least that’s what the smart-guy talent online say. Sports Illustrated and I were born the same year. With the end of the magazine this week everyone is sad. I’m sad even though my subscription lapsed […]
SPORTS FAN HISTORY: SING IT OUT
January 17, 2024 by
Sports fan used to be a grubby, sweaty, man who enjoyed watching other men do what they couldn’t do. His observations made him an expert to those who didn’t know sports, and an annoyance to those who did. Those were the good old days when men dressed in suits and ties, wore a hat, and […]
WINNING NOW: PHIL KNIGHT vs JERRY JONES
January 16, 2024 by
Winning now, right now, is more important the older you get. It’s like that when you have more seasons behind you than you do ahead. Phil Knight is eighty-five; Jerry Jones is eighty-one. Would it be too much to ask that they go out winners? First for the Ducks:
DISAPPOINTING DALLAS LAST CALL FOR 2023
January 15, 2024 by
Disappointing Dallas played its last football game of the year. And they are disappointed. How disappointed? Disappointed in their coach and quarterback? That disappointed? Maybe?
