How do you treat the competition?
The recently ended World Cup was an entangled web of relationships. Soccer Clubs from all over the world split up and headed to Brazil to play for their respective homelands. For example, take a look at the US team and what Clubs these guys normally play for. The US players craft their skills in 10 […]
Do you remember when…?
The crowning jewel of my private stash of athletic displays was laid in place around 21 summers ago. The bases are loaded. I’m up to bat. The pitch comes in and I put all 70 lbs of my 13-year-0ld, stirrup wearing boy-body into this swing. I drive the ball hard past the third basemen. It’s […]
Ride the lightning
This exchange would not happen 30 years ago. I wouldn’t be writing and you wouldn’t be reading. It would have cost us too much money to print and mail these updates to hundreds of people. The Sea Log would never have existed. And we couldn’t have published Listen to Your Laundry because no publisher […]
There is no such thing as good
What if you were the eleventh best-selling musical act for an entire decade? What if you were nominated for 78 awards? (And won 36 of them.) You’d also be lucky enough to be the most hated band in 2014. There is no such thing as good. Good? To whom? You? Maybe. To me? No way. Even the […]
Do you know Baxter Swenson?
We often get responses to these here Sea Log emails. A while back we started getting some not-so-anonymous replies under the alias Baxter Swenson. I’m not making this up. Baxter is smart and funny. But he’s also very opinionated. So the Ericks and I long debated whether or not we should share them with you […]
What gives you the right?
I can kill just about any idea. I’ll find you 7 things wrong with your idea right now. Time me. 1) It’s not different enough. 2) There’s too much corduroy. 3) Nobody will like it. 4) It’s too different. 5) It doesn’t smell like a real baby. 6) It won’t make people laugh. 7) There’s […]
What are you avoiding?
Nine days ago I finished a marathon. All 26.2 miles. A couple years ago I had no business even thinking about running a marathon. But I started running a little bit. And it got a little easier. And one thing lead to another. The biggest change was the change in my perspective, though. I started […]
What I learned from driving the Wienermobile.
A good portion of us exert a simple neck twist once in awhile to reveal how we are stacking up. We want to know how we are doing and we look to our neighbors as odd measuring sticks. We all know that’s a terrible strategy but an addictive one to break. Search hard enough and […]
Who should be pushing?
I need to push you to push me. So that I can do the work that I need to do. The stuff that’s clamors and clangs as it crawls its way out of my torso. Here’s how that might work: I’ve inclinations and suspicions of worth to be wrangled and put to work. These are things […]
