I’m a fit older man. I’m not one of those people who pretends not to be, then casually drops that the half marathon he just ran was a little more stressful than he’d expected. No, I pride myself in my ability to remain reasonably athletic as I creep closer to my 60s. (more…)
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2025
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21Dec
2024
The Wisest Thing I Ever Did
Greetings, friends. As I write this, there is bag of ice on my lap. Why, you ask? Because I pulled my groin in Brazilian Jiujitsu (BJJ) class, while rolling with someone who was literally a third of my age. I was attempting a scissor sweep from open guard. (Yes, that means something to some people reading this.) …Which totally should have worked, but something “down there” literally snapped. I heard it.
Getting older sucks, my friends.
But it got me thinking about my journey to this moment. I’ve written about it before, but I think it’s worth revisiting. Being old, I do find myself revisiting the choices I’ve made in my life. It takes a certain mood and strength to tolerate thinking about my bad choices. But I take deep pleasure in recounting the good choices, mostly because there have been so few of them. And perhaps the wisest choice I ever made was done when I was 19 years old, in September of 1986.
13Nov
2024
My Favourite SNL Musical Performances
Yes, there are momentous things happening on the global stage. Yes, we are still recovering from an historic and impactful US Presidential election. But I’m taking a break from fretting about the world. Instead, today I’m simply going to list my favourite musical performances from multiple decades of Saturday Night Live.
Now, my list will differ from yours. My musical tastes are different from yours. But this is my blog, so I get to make the list. Feel free to add your list in the comments. NBC has blocked many of the videos from YouTube, so I’ve had to scrounge to find samples elsewhere…
10Jun
2024
Saltwater Redux
Next month marks a watershed anniversary for me. It will be 25 years since my very first book, Sweet Like Saltwater, was published. Related, it’s also precisely the 25th anniversary of my first blog post. Yes, I’ve been blogging since before the word “blog” was coined. (Not really, the term was invented 2 years before my first foray.)
My first post was indeed about the impending publication of Sweet Like Saltwater:
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