Category: character
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Rule #23: cut your sandwich
Me and the Fellas are on a thread around defining “who we are” by the “things that we do”. We volunteered at the ADA Walk, we try hard at practice even if in the common vocabulary of a six and eight year old, it is “boooooring”, etc, etc. We just added a new rule, #23, […]
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Dee Vockell 1940-2010
She was ready to go. Dee was down with G.O.D. and was ready to go spend some time getting to know him even better. The final weeks weren’t great, and with just a couple of days until Christmas we decided to have her memorial in January. Her life of service had a magical, defining, final […]
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Really?
The Elder brought up some topic about phone staring today. I think we were out and about and he asked for my phone to look something up and I said “I don’t have it”. “Cool” he replied. I’ve told him a couple of times that I leave my phone at home, or in the car, […]
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Rule #32: keeping a secret
The Team got first round information today that one of The Elder’s best friend’s mom was expecting. We talked about the nature of this kind of announcement, how it was their story to tell more than ours, and that for a period of time it was a ‘secret’. We discussed how it was a secret […]
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Single Sex Education
I love that I went to St. X for High School. I remember December 3 every year because we had it off in observance of St. Francis Xavier’s death, and I loved days off. I am sure at this point I have 99% romanticized my time at St. Xavier High School. It got me into […]
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I’m Fat
A buck ninety-five. WTF. I have made a commitment to the Fellas that I am going to live to be 100 (they have amended the sign) and that “every pound over 170 rips a wonderful year off the end of my life.” Shit, I talk to people every day about healthy choices and I can […]
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Step 2. Crushed.
Remember on June 1st of last year when you were talking big smack about “Novo Nordisk is the world’s largest diabetes company and they just announced an open RFP to supply a digital diabetes program to their patients. I’m going to win that and start the cascade.” [Big Talk]
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Aaron Sorkin
The headline alone conjures visions of long fast-paced walks, staccato banter, papers being handed in and out of frame, and you either don’t really know who he is or you love, love, love him. He comes to the front of the lobe today as I have just watched “Molly’s Game”, his first director gig. It […]
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no look support
Great Days: It was August of 1990 and I packed up 1/3 of a shared van, abandoned my scooter and headed east to NY with no job and no place locked down to lay my head. By the time I drove across the GWB I had arranged to crash on the couch of a former […]
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unplanned character discovery
One of my NYC rituals during my fifteen years of glory in NY was a bi-monthly run to the New York Blood Center in Port Authority to drop off a pint of good citizenship. I never told anyone about it, I think there are some Presbyterian mores around anonymous philanthropy. One November Thursday in the […]