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YOUR TRIBE: HAVE YOU FOUND IT, OR STILL LOOKING

Your tribe is waiting and it’s accepting memberships, if that’s the sort of tribe that appeals to you. Or maybe you’re more of a “Membership? We don’t need no stinking membership” sort of person. Either way, the yearning for connection, human connections, isn’t going away. But which tribe is your tribe? A few clues:

MISSING PARTS AND WHERE TO FIND REPLACEMENTS

When I was a kid I had a high school aged uncle who liked to build model cars with missing parts. He didn’t play any sports. I glued model cars together, too. The box of plastic pieces all linked together became a Buick Wildcat. No paint, nothing special, just following directions and putting it together. […]

GREAT MEMORIES ADVICE: FROM ONE LIFE STAGE TO THE NEXT

Great memories ought to inform current decisions. After all, if you have great memories you cherish, why not add to them? Moving along life’s stages, from one to the next, from being a kid, to teenager, to young adult, to middle age, to senior, fills up a big wagon of memories to pull along. Did […]

ACCOUNTABILITY COACH SAYS STAND UP AND BE SOMEBODY

Accountability Coach is a new job title for a new resume. If you are someone others consider accountable, you could be an Accountability Coach. However, if you’re the only one who thinks you’re accountable, you’ve got some work ahead of you. Do you need an accountability coach? Or do you need a blog post laying […]

YOUTH SPORTS, THE KEY TO GOOD BEHAVIOR

Youth sports are one of the best teachers this side of the classroom and real teachers. Better than books, videos, and lectures, youth sports does one thing best of all: learning accountability. Unfortunately, not all agree on the benefits of youth sports. For example:

SPORTS EDUCATION STARTS WITH KNOWING YOUR TEAM

Sports education with Raider Coach Tom Fores started in middle school at a parent teacher conference. I was the parent, the teacher was Miss Flores, my kid’s teacher. She was whip smart and knew how to reach her students in ways other teachers couldn’t. As a science teacher, she had an advantage. The night of […]

GRECO ROMAN MEDAL WITH A HAPPY FAMILY

Greco Roman sounds so classic because that’s what it is, classic. It sounds old, like Greek City-State and Roman Empire old. Way the heck back there. In the sports world, Greco Roman is a particular style of wrestling, not an architectural element. It’s for athletes who don’t want to get tangled up in someone’s legs, […]

BREAKDOWN 2020: LIFE SCOREBOARD FOR ELEVEN SECONDS

Breakdown 2020 looks at the year’s round up on World Magazine. Year 2020 included the deaths of notable politicians, academics, theologians, athletes, and artists.  This is the most notable entry on the list:

GREG STROBEL AWARDS MEDALS, CHANGES LIVES

In 1973, Greg Strobel was the best college wrestler in the NCAA Championship meet. The best of the best. A group of high school wrestlers from North Bend drove up to Seattle to watch the matches. We saw what greatness looked like toward the end of the finals when Greg Strobel stepped out on the […]

LOUD PEP TALK HIDDEN MESSAGE: YOU’RE A LOSER

A pep talk has a particular place and time. It’s not normal conversation, it’s communication on steroids. Listening to a pep talk gives two distinct reactions: Get hyped up, or tune out. A third response is understanding what all the noise is about. This is the one that takes special experiences. Like what, you ask?