Summer of Bean

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 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 [...]

For some reason I think it was when I was reading Little Big Man at Moss Jr High back in the early 80s that I was first exposed to the phrase “many moons”, as in “it’s been many moons since I last kissed a girl”.  I do know I picked up the phrase “it’s not [...]

Just when I think the summer is slipping through my fingers too quickly, I get a reminder that were truly just beginning.  As in summer just officially started Saturday night.  At 10:45 pm Saturday, as the sun crossed the equator on its way to the Tropic of Cancer, I was standing on the Sundial Bridge [...]

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. [...]