The eight of us in addition to just playing the golf courses like to add a little fun by giving each other causes for concern. However, other golfers weren’t immune to our sense of humor or honor. One thing that irritated us […]
It’s college football bowl season. I have been indulging myself in endless ball games. I am amazed at how many I can watch, then something starts to bother me, the number of penalties that are being called. In addition to the number […]
Two of my favorite players on the Juniors were Tucker and Todd. They had grown up together and had been teammates for ten years. They always managed to surprise or give me problems. Todd was one of our principal goal scorers. He […]
I attended Memorial High Catholic school in Evansville Indiana. The school was supposedly a boy’s school and taught by the Brothers of Notre Dame. However, girls were admitted temporarily in 1935 and never left. The girls were taught by nuns and were […]
Leo who is from the US, was the baby of the group. Not to say any of us were young. Although he was a very successful store manager. We still had some things to teach him. Memorable is that we showed him […]
A little over 6 years ago my wife Martha began pestering me to think about moving to a retirement community. As a typical macho male, I wasn’t interested. The subject to the best of my knowledge was done. However, Martha began a […]
Shortly after moving to Rockford, my son Dan heard on the local television that they were starting a boy’s hockey club. Dan was six and understood that you had to be at least six to join. He asked if we could do […]
In the early 80s Bill Faulkner and I were talking about the health of the Rockford Hockey Club. It consisted of eleven teams, but the problem was feeders into to these teams. We came up with a plan to develop a system […]
In my early days of coaching my whole concern was in teaching kids how to play hockey. I wanted nothing to do with the problems of running the club, ice time, dues, rules etc. However, there were growing problems in the club. […]
Raising kids is not the easiest occupation in the world. You have to learn how to teach and protect without becoming a hovering parent. One has to allow them to learn by experience, which sometimes is painful. At a time when my […]