Front page article in the Christian Science Monitor and on csmonitor.com. Speaks fluent Mandarin. Running around China working for CSM during the summer break between his sophomore and junior years at Harvard. Political science major. Future Secretary of State. Nice Jewish boy. Nineteen. Someone that anyone of any age would enjoy hanging out with. His [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Awful travel last week due to brutal storms in Chicago but exacerbated by poor airline service. Some lowlights. Spent 4 hours at O’Hare Wednesday night trying to make St. Louis for an early Thursday meeting. Sitting in the lounge watching sheets of rain come down punctuated by the periodic lightning bolt gave me a good indication [...]
With less than two months and about 8 training days to go before my second attempt to complete my first century ride I am hopeful but not overconfident. I have been riding 50+ miles for each of the past 4 weekends. These last two were beyond perfection for biking. Temps in the upper seventies with sunshine [...]
This post was going to be about my first 2 sessions with a personal trainer. How in the evaluation that was the first session we learned that I have no upper body strength, less flexibility and that parts of my body that usually get ignored hurt like hell as the PT twisted and stretched me. How after the [...]
Beginning last November I developed some strange behaviors. At times I get anxious and my palms begin to sweat. I cannot focus on the task at hand as my mind wonders. I experience moments of either euphoria or deep depression. I crave a fix. It started out as an occasional desire but more recently I need it several times a [...]
Actor Charles Lane recently died at the age of 102. He was a character actor. In fact one site I researched had as an executive summary “grumpy character actor”. He never played in a starring role but he portrayed memorable characters in dozens of well known movies. Many of us will recognize his face. The great director Frank [...]
Think of all the things you might want to do during the summer in a big city like Chicago. Take a few minutes and really think about this. Raise your hand if bike riding through the cities neighborhoods starting after midnight and going until sunrise was on your list. Go ahead and add it now, [...]
In the past three weeks, the following family members have made visits to the hospital: Mom, three times father-figure. Long story on the reference. (Well OK. Lives with Mom for over 25 years. My best friend’s dad. Very great guy) mother-in -law son There is nothing positive about the atmosphere in a hospital no matter how fancy [...]
The catch phrase is that using Rogaine will be the easiest part of your routine. And yet this director had no sense of order. Stop this ad for Rogaine after 18 seconds. Start again. Would you go straight from rubbing this stuff in your hair to flossing and brushing your teeth. I immediately got this image of [...]
(The second of two articles from Monday’s Chicago Tribune) I have been hearing about a segment in our society in need of support. It just so happens that at a point when many of us would feel we reached the financial pinnacle, we would just be joining a group of relative paupers. We need to [...]
