If you’ve never seen Napoleon Dynamite, you might want to put it on your schedule this weekend. I’m sure you could use a laugh. “I don’t even have any good skills. You know like num-chuk skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great … [Read more...]

The single most common piece of advice I’ve given is to take the day off before your exam.  Don’t study.  Don’t go to work.   Rest your brain.   Don’t drive in traffic.  Nothing that is annoying and stresses you out. Rest your brain.   You're going to … [Read more...]

How does that work out for you? You FEEL a little better about the whole thing, but, if you're like me, you start zoning out and nodding off. You have to read every page two or three times for it to sink in. The same kind of thing happens to me in the early afternoon. My energy is … [Read more...]

The guy who head coaches my youngest’s travel baseball team cracks me up. As coaches, we all would get to the field about 15-20 minutes before practice would start. We always hammered home the idea of being on time, ready to play, shirts tucked in, and on the field. The kids all just started … [Read more...]

My son and a few of his friends joined a private baseball team this spring. They’re good players. They have a good team. One of his friends is the #1 pitcher on that team. We drove an hour to go to our very first tournament back in May. In the very first inning, our number one pitcher gave up … [Read more...]