7 11, 2024

Two More Deaths in Our Triathlon Family

By | November 7th, 2024|Categories: Triathlon|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

You might think that I’m going through some sort of morbid phase in my writing because of my last article about Another Death in Our Ski Racing Family followed by this one. Certainly, bad timing, though I don’t think there is a good time for death. But writing helps me grieve and I hope my [...]

2 11, 2024

Another Death in Our Ski Racing Family

By | November 2nd, 2024|Categories: Ski Racing|Tags: , , |0 Comments

It was almost 7 years ago that I wrote about the death of two ski racers, David Poisson, a French downhiller, and, closer to home, Max Burkhart, a German athlete who was attending Sugar Bowl Academy, where my daughters used to go to school and where I was a long-time member of its Board of [...]

1 06, 2015

Don’t Waste Your Time (It’s Precious)

By | June 1st, 2015|Categories: Psychology|Tags: , , , , , |2 Comments

Please, don't waste my time! If you do, don't expect me to hang out for very long with you. And don't expect me to spend time with you in the future. I confess, I discriminate against certain people. I don’t hate these people; most are quite decent and likable. Though I do avoid them as [...]

8 01, 2015

Today Show Segment on the Recent Deaths of 2 Ski Racers

By | January 8th, 2015|Categories: Ski Racing|Tags: , , , , |1 Comment

If you haven't already seen it, watch this Today Show segment about the recent deaths of 2 young ski racers, Ronnie Berlack and Bryce Astle. Powerful, touching, inspiring, painful...Get ready to cry.

13 12, 2013

“Getting Old Sucks!”

By | December 13th, 2013|Categories: Psychology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

“Getting old sucks!” That’s what my 86-year-old father shared with me on a recent visit. He has lived in Boca Raton, Florida, since moving from my childhood home in Connecticut a few years ago. He lives alone; his wife of 49 years, my mother, died of ovarian cancer ten years ago at the age of [...]