Across the open field I ran … scared straight! Alone, running as fast as I could under a cloudless night sky, the farmhouse behind me engulfed in spotlight from the three or four cop cars that [...]
Many, if not most, of you have heard about the rebranding of USMC Fitness Boot Camp. If you missed this from the other day, here’s what happened. Last week, an attorney for the Department of [...]
He sat alone on the back row of the large crowded church where he was not welcome, attending a wedding he was not invited to but had paid for, watching another man walk his daughter down the [...]
Do you remember your best day at school? I do. It didn’t have anything to do with exams or social intrigue. No extra-curricular activities or special events. In fact, though I loved school, or [...]
Two of my favorite movie swordsmen are complete opposites. The Black Knight is an unyielding buffoon from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” and Ujio is a dedicated warrior from [...]
A couple of years ago I was the guest speaker at Memphis University School’s weekly assembly. I had no formal connection to the school. I was never a student there, nor faculty member. But I knew [...]
The first book that I ever read was a book about running. Well, maybe not technically. But the very first sentence I ever read was about running. “See Tom run.” That was the first [...]
After reading a recent essay I wrote, a friend of many years said, “Tony, I think I’ve heard most of your stories, (he hasn’t … I haven’t even told half my stories!) but I don’t think I’d ever [...]
My grandfather—my “Big Dad”—taught me things that would have equipped me for his world, his generation. But didn’t really help me much for the one I would be in. Much of what he taught me [...]
