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BE MINDFUL WITH A MIND ALREADY FULL? OK BOOMER

You hear ‘be mindful’ and what do you think? I hear it and think, ‘watch your step around this one.’ Is there more?

BROKEN WILL? HOW TO BREAK IT

Kristen Faulkner left a broken will on her way to Olympic gold. More than one. It was a race that seemed settled with two leaders breaking away from the first chase group. All Vos and Vas had to do was pour it on to the finish line. Faulkner was out of the picture. Then she […]

SPORTS FAN REVIEW: IN THE BEGINNING

Sports fan knows one thing: Rivalry. Without rivalry, sporting events resemble theater without the curtains. With rivalry we feel something deeper, way deeper, way down there. If you come from a certain time and place the only rivals that mattered were the Marshfield High School Pirates. But, everyone grows up. Right?

CHANGING TIMES IN SEPTEMBER

Changing times are one thing: Fall back, or spring forward. Okay, two things. But the month of September is my big change month since first grade and every grade after. For everything:

PEOPLE UNITED BY GIVING WRITERS

Needy people? You see them all over the place? So do I. I’m one of them. Oh, and so are you. We need things we don’t have. Writers give some of those things, or at least the feeling of giving. So what?

DEFECTIVE OFFSPRING PRAISE SHOW OFF DADDIES

There is a family of defective offspring that keeps growing. Not all are blood related, but more intent related. They want what daddy wants. Or mommy. But mostly daddy. Why daddy?

ADVERSITY TRAINING ONE BLOG POST AFTER ANOTHER

Adversity training comes from two sources: Those who have faced adversity, and those who will face adversity. Pro Tip: We all face adversity. How we deal with it tells others who we are. While I’m not an adversity trainer, or in adversity training, I am a man and therefore qualified to add senseless context to […]

QUITTERS NEVER WIN, WINNERS NEVER QUIT, BUT . . .

Quitters carry a label that’s hard to peal off, steam off, or scratch off. Once someone gets used to quitting important things, they can quit anything. The best of them develop a skill set where they try to convince themselves they didn’t really quit anything. The reasoning? They were surrounded by real quitters so no […]