giving rise to action; staying fit and sane through running
(25 Weeks)
It was a warm July day in the Bronx, and I stood outside Yankee Stadium with my Dad. Since he and I started going to Yankees games in the mid 70s, I insisted we arrive at the stadium many hours before the first pitch. First so I could wait outside and watch the players arrive and then to stand down by the dugout for the entire two hours of batting practice because the players were often kind enough to come over to say hello and sign autographs. My father was accommodating.
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(26 Weeks)
Typically, I do an initial draft of these posts weeks in advance. I have a thought and put a stream of consciousness down on paper (so to speak) that gets re-written and edited as we get close to an appropriate publication date. I have a spreadsheet of all the dates, with ideas, and noted special occasions that might inform when a specific subject matter would be most appropriately discussed.
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(27 Weeks)
Election Day 2020 – November 3 – was Enzo’s 10th Birthday. As a distraction from waiting to see where the day left us, I made an appointment for him at the groomer. It was a warmish day, and after I picked him up (curbside with a mask on since we were very much still in the thick of covid, pre-vaccines), we drove with the top down with nothing between us and the crystal blue sky. I was hopeful.
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(28 Weeks)
This weekend’s project was assembling 100 little bags of candy for all the little ones who will appear at our door later this week. I expect them to be adorned with a costume representing some facet of the personality or their favorite 2024 pop culture icon and issuing a threat. “Trick or treat.”
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(29 Weeks)
Taylor Swift may have learned a lot before she turned thirty, but I believe many important life’s lessons came after that milestone. So here goes…thirty lessons learned in the 2nd 30!
(Since it got way longer than a typical blog post, I’ve cut it into three parts. This is the first 10)
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