I dare you

January 1, 2016

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton

Game changers

January 1, 2016

The first set was over in a hurry and your team feels out of sync. Here are seven things you can consider that honors that age old tennis maxim…..’never change a winning game but always change a losing one.’ 1. Talk on the changeover re: the pressure is actually on your opponents to finish the […]

The Tennis Dilemma

January 1, 2016

Your doubles team won the first set easily 6-2. Twenty minutes later you are down 4-1 in the second. What happened? An all too common human tendency…..we relax and take our foot off the gas pedal and hit the cruise control button. Simultaneously, opponents dig in and fight like junkyard dogs. Put the two together […]

Peaceful slumber

January 1, 2016

Oh come to me sweet angel the sun has set and the crickets long ago have stopped their evening chatter The dogs that barked incessantly have thankfully retired and yet my mind can’t let go Won’t you fly down and gently place your fingers softly upon my eyelids and close them ever so slowly Will […]

Rhapsody

January 1, 2016

“He puts his cheek against mine and makes small, expressive sounds. And when I’m awake, or awake enough…. he turns upside down, his four paws in the air and his eyes dark and fervent. ‘Tell me you love me,’ he says. ‘Tell me again.’ Could there be a sweeter arrangement? Over and over he gets […]