Month: July 2013

Just got back from what turned out to be a family vacation.  Father, Daughter, Nephew, Daughter, Father. Great time up at Okoboji.  Thanks to Great Friend Dr. Bill Weeks for … Read More

Today’s is one of my hardest columns ever.  Because I’m bidding adios to a good friend.  But we are also excited to be wishing him great success and happiness as … Read More

These are Professionals, do not attempt at home! Pete Kostelnick of Lincoln is doing the amazing, the crazy, the impossible.  He is setting the bar for every single “endurance” runner … Read More

The year was 2002, the BIX 7 mile had been awarded our USATF National Championships for the distance.  I was serving my first year as the National Championships Chair for … Read More

So Lance Armstrong is riding RAGBRAI.  BFD!   I was a huge supporter of my fellow Texan through the trials and tribulations leading up to his ultimate confession.  Wanted to … Read More

First up my recommendation for naming the little royal bugger:  Nelson. In honor of Nelson Mandela.  Now I don’t want to hear another word about it. Farm life requires the … Read More

A couple of good runs this weekend and a lot of hard work on the landscaping finds me at a svelte 142.  I was a chunky 157 just a few … Read More

Thanks to those that have been asking for an update.  We have collected $1060 so far and it resides with the donation point, FrontRunIt.  Looking ultimately to get it transferred … Read More

I love symmetry as much as I love chaos.  So today’s column title is nicely juxtaposed to yesterday’s. And somewhat prompted by Dan “The Music Man” Fucinaro who posts on … Read More

One of the first philosophical reads of my early life.  Aldous Huxley’s 1931 glimpse of a “perfect” society.  He and Orwell were influential in forming my views on government and … Read More