He was always getting up a game of some kind, usually sandlot football. Mark had a knack for gathering my friends and me, most of us ten years his younger, for a game of football in the fall or baseball in the spring. And he was my own personal trainer, throwing me thousands of football …
By now you’ve heard the news: We’re growing, at least physically. The average American male is seventeen pounds heavier and the average female nineteen pounds heavier than in the late 1970s. And the percentage of overweight children and adolescents in the US has nearly tripled in that same period of time. One of the most …
Dear Dave: We watched as you took your diploma in one hand and shook President Roush’s hand with the other. That was a great moment for all of us, for it signified the closing of one chapter in your life and the opening of another. Now that you have your diploma, remember that it has …
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“Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before ‘Relax’ said the night man, ‘We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!’” —-The Eagles, Hotel California My cousins had picked me up …
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She was struggling to tell me something but her words wouldn’t come. All she could do was mumble and that only with great frustration. I was holding her hand, trying as best I could to comfort her in her agitation. “Could you come to the hospital as soon as possible?” Her son had called me …