Excuses.  Yep, that’s what I see when I look down from atop the totem pole I’m sitting on.  I just can’t seem to find my training mojo and it’s really getting to me.  It’s not without good reason – it seems like every time I turn around life just keeps getting busier…..because they’re mostly good things, albeit still busier I just keep turning around.  You think I’d learn.  So I figured perhaps if I get all of my barriers out […]

Today I learned one of the toughest lessons in sport, something that I knew was coming, but never really anticipated would be quite like it was……..something that I don’t think I was 100% ready for.  Today, I sent my youngest to the wolves a little bit and then had to stand back and see how he would survive.  Today I learned that “sometimes it’s harder to NOT do than it is to do”.For years my youngest child (and only son) […]

Thanksgiving has come and gone and December is all but here.  I find myself tired, but so ready for the next phase of the year.  I love the holidays as much as the next guy and although a bit early for me to get excited for Christmas and way way too early to even begin to think about shopping (don’t want to ruin my record of waiting until the very very last minute), that’s not what I’m feeling ready for. […]