Alpine Events for Tuesday February 16

I hear quite a few people cracking on the Winter Olympics, as if the Winter events are not real sports or are fru-fru. However, as the horrific event of earlier today demonstrates (I write this […]

he music that goes with the Olympics is distinct. Some years ago I was searching for The Stars and Stripes Forever and my university library had a CD including that piece. I popped the CD […]

This ski trip actually began in 1980 while I was still in grade school. The original airing of the original Shogun (the day I’m writing this it was announced that the star of that mini-series Richard Chamberlain has passed away) really caught my attention and indeed fascination. This led to me some years later purchasing the book Shogun by James Clavell and reading it and it was very riveting – I do recall finishing the second half of the book in one weekend – only getting out of bed for the most basic of life necessities! […]