Autumn. Truly the best time of the year here along the Pacific. Temperatures are nearly perfect during the day while the comforter is needed when bedtime comes. Windows open and full house of women (including the bulldog) and the football game is on with a World Series game on for later in the afternoon. Another [...]
Weekend mornings here along the river have been slow starters for the past ten months or so. Most mornings the girls would sleep in and the trick to keeping them upstairs is to stay away from brewing the morning’s first pot of coffee. Bonnie has a tremendous nose for coffee and even opening the decanter [...]
When Fridays finally arrive and the windows are down while the ocean airs fill the senses there’s one thing left to do during this ten mile commute and that’s connect with “The Wild and the Innocent”; a program on the Bruce Springsteen XM channel. Each Friday afternoon I’m lucky enough to capture portions of the [...]
When Tom Brady tells his receivers “you have the best half of your life, and I’ll have the best half of my life” it’s an indication that things did not go as planned during the first thirty minutes of the football game. I speak of course of the 2001 AFC Divisional Game held in Foxboro, [...]
Every afternoon when I come home from work and walk through the garage there’s a nice reminder of a Boston sports team that runs through my veins and that’s the flag hanging off a pair of hooks adorned with the BRUINS logo with the words EASTERN CHAMPIONS on a beautiful black and gold cloth. I [...]
It’s a Saturday morning here in Northern California. Autumn is in the air and the locals are enjoying the bounty provided by Mother Nature as of late. Merchant doors are swinging in both directions, people are smiling and the days of relaxing on Dillon Beach are beginning to fade into the memory banks, unless of [...]
It’s seven-thirty in the morning and a weekend morning to boot and the one place I ought to be is now vacant and needs to be made. Uggh. What in the world am I doing awake? Only several hours ago I sit on the same couch I watched the SOX/NYY game from during a disappointing [...]
I mentioned to the wine-tender in Sausalito yesterday that “sixteen years ago today we were giving birth” and she shot me a quizzical look followed by the comment “We? I know you had something to do with it on the front end, but really, ‘we’?” The last thing any of us needed was my response [...]
The forty hours a week is for work – the customer – the professional mindset and the satisfaction you create by doing a job well done during each of those eight hours a day. The weekend however is for you, your family, your projects and your soul. The weekend, as we all realize is much too [...]
TEMPERAMENT. To start things this beautiful morning I decided to visit Wikipedia to obtain a definition of the word “temperament” and then use that definition to begin today’s blog. "In psychology, temperament refers to those aspects of an individual's personality, such as introversion or extroversion, that are often regarded as innate rather than learned. A [...]