Mr. Costanza. ..your legs have sustained extensive trauma. Apparently your body was in the state of advanced atrophy, due to a period of extreme inactivity.
But with a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck, I think there’s a good chance you may, one day, walk again.
Ah, such high hopes for the summer. [...]
The economy was a topic of discussion last week as Jack and a friend of his got together for lunch.
Over lunch our friend asked — with an earnestness, almost a desperation, in his voice — what America is going to produce to lead itself out of the current recession. Given that we’re all turning a [...]
No sooner did I get off the phone with my boss yesterday morning, than I got a call from Rick Emerson show producer Greg. He apologized for waking me up, but he told me Rick had given him my number and told him to cajole me to come on the show. While I swore I [...]
The light posting the last week or so has been due to my vacation schedule. Every year I take July 6th through 9th off to help run the End of the Trail tournament down in Oregon City. I’ve been doing this off and on now since high school. Some people would go crazy sitting in [...]
Pete and the Parkroses came to town this weekend from their compound outside Boise. Pete has been among my best friends since we met at college nearly two decades ago.
Pete and his lovely bride were the first among my friends to start their family. Erin was born in October of 1996. I remember this because [...]
How long have I been at this now? A couple of weeks? I already feel like I’m getting behind. The book thing, for example. Like George, I’m not a reader at all. It’s been a little bit of a struggle. And to add to my troubles, it turns out there are like 9 holds on [...]
It seems a lot longer than two years since I declared the last Summer of Bean. A lot has happened in that time. I read The Dip and decided to try and live it. I left a relatively stable job and struck out on my own to see what that felt like for a while. [...]
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