Black Profiles in Courage, A Legacy of African-American Achievement by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; 1996; William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, NY; 232 pages; 0-688-13097-6; 2/22-2/27 A grave injustice has been done to the people of color in this country. So many of their accomplishments have been minimized or miscredited or stolen by the majority. The [...]
Where are you now? Well ever since I got back from my walk this morning I have trying to put a picture in this post but no matter how I try to do it I can’t make it work. Do you hear that Steve? The picture is of my parents and Leonard and Ivy Crocker. [...]
I was entering todays mileage in my spreadsheet this morning when I remembered a conversation from the early 70′s. It was after a track meet at the University of Oregons’ Hayward Field and I was hanging out with Steve McChesney. We approached Frank Shorter, winner of the 1972 Olympic Decathlon, and asked him how far [...]
Every morning (since Feb 10) I get up and wander over to Portland Christian High School and walk around their track. Walking around the track multiple times gets your mind to wandering so I thought I would share those wanderings with you. It’s not hard to understand why oil is so important to this country [...]
Last night after I got done writing Monday Music I checked my email and there was an email from a friend with a link to LarryNorman.com. On that page it said that Larry Norman had passed away Sunday morning. I believe that if not for Larry Norman there would not be contemporary Christian music. Larry [...]
