When I first got out of college 20 years ago, I wanted to find ways to stay involved with wrestling. I couldn’t decide between officiating and coaching so I did the sensible thing – I did both. That lasted for two seasons when work and life made it clear that I had to give up […]
We have a crisis on our hands in America, people. We need to rise up together and make things right. Everywhere I look, I see people arguing about all sorts of things. No one can agree on health care or national defense or how to deal with our economic problems. Everyone thinks they have the […]
I just wanted to get home. I didn’t have any crazy expectations. Fortune let me down, however. The week after all the snow fell, my commute to Baltimore got a little more cumbersome than usual. First of all, some roads still had snow covering part of the travel lanes. That really didn’t bother me too […]
We had one of those special opportunities to go see a movie over Valentine’s Day weekend. I really looked forward to sitting down and enjoying a pleasant little film. In the end, that did happen. However, I feel like my ADD got in the way a little bit. I blame it on the much-worse ADD […]
One of my favorite comedians, Louis CK, has a wonderful bit which pretty much sums up the way this crazy world seems to go these days. He outlines all the wonderful advances we have achieved as humans, then points out how we seem to do nothing except complain. Everything is great; nobody’s happy, he exclaims. […]
The world has come to Vancouver as the Winter Olympics are under way. I usually just sit back and cheer for the Americans, but I have a different rooting interest this time around. I traveled to Vancouver for work last November and shared a plane back with a bunch of athletes from around the world […]
We all lost a national treasure recently. Some of you may not have noticed, but you can trust me when I say many of us feel terrible about what happened. “Jersey Shore” finished its short season on MTV. I can’t believe we only got to know The Situation, Snookie and the gang a couple of […]
Pennsylvania has a very special celebration today. With Groundhog Day, we not only find out when spring is coming, we also get a chance to have a little party. Well, at least in places like Punxsutawney. Not all of us can get up to Gobbler’s Knob and see the world’s most famous groundhog weatherman – […]
The other weekend, I had to officiate a youth wrestling event. The action got started around noon, and I walked up to the high school kids working the table for my mat and asked them a very simple question. “Are we ready to have some fun?” They laughed or grunted as sleepy teenagers do (I […]
I come from a long line of couch sleepers. Like my father before me, I appreciate the bliss of sawing logs on the living room sofa. Sometimes it’s because I can’t fall asleep in bed for some reason or another. Other times, it’s because I just feel like drifting off while watching a game on […]