Note: This blog was written on Aug. 2, 2019. Dad passed away three days later at age 74 on Aug. 5, 2019. Is today the day? We’ve been saying that for three weeks now as we watch Dad steadily decline and inch closer to the afterlife. For two days, he’s had the tell-tale death rattle. […]
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Watching pro wrestling with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Screaming at the top of my lungs along with my brother and cousins as he floored it in his car while doing donuts in a dirt field. Checking the electricity under the hood of my 1971 Monte Carlo — with
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The last time I saw Kathy Kessinger, I was breaking down the science of being hit in the groin while shooting photos during a volleyball practice at Santa Fe Trail High School. It was an embarrassing moment I haven’t shared with many in the years since, but it was a story I knew Kathy would
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My last exchange with Sharon Moon was classic Sharon: A little bit a wicked humor, and a little bit of kindness. Responding to a Facebook post about the original version of the movie “It” and how the collection of clown figurines she kept in her home scared the hell out of me as a 13-year-old,
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Working the copy desk is about as thankless as jobs get. I always equate it to playing offensive line: Nobody knows who you are unless you make a mistake. In that sense, Steve Bell fit like a glove as a copy editor. He was about as centered and unassuming as a person can be. Like
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In my one year of coaching high school basketball in Burlingame, I got plenty of suggestions. Mostly from parents (their kid should be starting, you know). Officials, principals, players. You name it, all of them had advice to offer to a green 21-year-old with hoop dreams. But some the best advice I received that year wasn’t
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Things change so quickly. I know, I know. Of course, they do. That’s life. But that hit me today as I sat alone for a few quiet, peaceful minutes surveying the small town I spent much of my life in. As I looked at an aging park across the street to the west, I thought,
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Ah, the end-of-year column/blog. I did one every year until 2010, largely because the year sucked for the most part. I look back at the difference a year made, and it’s staggering. It was so much better that it demands a return of the end-of-the-year blog (I’ll start with the end of 2010, which set
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According to studies by NASA (or somebody who knows about blogs), you’re supposed to blog at least twice a week to build a following. That means seven of you will read this, considering it’s my second blog in four months. Don’t worry, the sports/pop culture/music video theme will return in time for football season. In
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