friendship

BIG WEEKEND

BIG WEEKEND

The scar on my forehead is healing nicely. Thanks for asking. It's still prominent but fading. That fall in the darkness of my London hotel room could have gone quite differently. More than a few people have reminded me that's how Bob Saget died. But here I am, glad I didn't lose an eye or break my teeth on that solid wood nightstand. Lesson learned.

That fiasco put a punctuation mark on my London weekend but did not define it. A couple weekends before that I did the college reunion and visited Lambeau for a Packers game, so October was truly a month filled with big happenings. Yet none compares with this past weekend.

LUCKY MAN

LUCKY MAN

Taking Paris hits stores four weeks from today. I write this because it suddenly feels close and I want to remind myself that it's not tomorrow. Be patient. Twenty-eight days is a long time to wait for anything, including a Christmas-like event landing the first week in September. So I must remain calm, knowing that four Tuesdays from now will come when it comes. . . .

TGBC

TGBC

I am well aware of my introverted ways, of which solitude is a key component. When my oldest son was turning twelve and decided to skip his final year of Little League baseball, he agonized over the decision — not because he would miss baseball, but because he feared that I would no longer have any friends if I left the Little League coaching community. In time he came to understand that a lack of friends is not the issue, but the lack of a need for friends.