My wife looked at me and shook her head, her disdain hidden by a wry smile. “Go ahead,” she said. But I could tell in her tone that what she really wanted to say was, “Go ahead, you freaking lunatic, while I stay home and try to figure out how I managed to marry a [...]
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Photo by lrargerich This post was inevitable. But I still hate writing it. Because it is beginning to look more and more like Sunday, February 14th was the last skating day of the 2009-2010 backyard rink season. I spent about an hour on the ice with the boots-and-helmet-clad RJ, as I was trying to break [...] It was probably somewhere around 8pm, after the first of two intra-city hockey games at the JFK Coliseum. I was clad in my then-awesome varsity jacket, the giant “W” crest and stark-white pleather sleeves overstating my confidence. One of my good friends, who went to the rival high school we had played that night, had arranged somewhat of [...] You know, some day I’ll stop being so damn sappy and mushy and sentimental on this blog. Someday I’ll just talk about ice conditions and hose adapters and weather forecasts. But I’m sorry, that day won’t be January 1, 2010. Because on the first day of this new decade, sometime between breakfast and the start [...] Merry Christmas! After all the gift-opening and socializing with family and friends, I got my son all geared up and headed out to check on my work. The parts that were slushy two days ago have frozen over partially, though the temps yesterday hovered in the mid-30′s. They’ve been sitting at about 30 degrees today, [...] |
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