It’s been a very busy month, between my wife healing up from her concussion, and going back to phone triage through the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. I still pick up at least two shifts a month on the Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder’s unit at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis.
To say work has been [...]

I used a little of my birthday money to get John Carlin’s book, “Playing the Enemy-Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation.”
I strongly  recommend this book. It’s not so much a rugby book, it’s really a bit of history with rugby as a very important supporting character.
John Carlin interviewed many of the important [...]

I am 49 years old today. I have a lot to think about on  this , the beginning of my last year of being in my 40’s.  I count my blessings that I am in good health(Hope to be off the blood thinner Coumadin so I can play rugby next year), I am happily married, [...]

I confess that this week has found me more stressed out and in a much more foul mood than usual. I think between the stress involving my wife’s accident, financial costs related to it, the time crunch having to drive my wife to multiple appointments every day, very busy and stressful evenings at work, and [...]

After my previous downer posting, I thought that I should comment on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to add golf(no real surpise) and rugby 7’s to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games that will be held in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The final yes vote was a very pleasant surprise to me-Interestingly enough, rugby actually [...]

Wow….It has been awhile since I have been able to blog. it’s not for a lack of news in the world of the Oval ball:Rugby was added as an official sport in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. (The Seven’s version of the game), we had the first weekend of Heineken Cup matches this weekend(with [...]

Awhile back I did a posting about Maanihera, the young man from New Zealand for whom I am his AFS Liaison. Well, Maani made the sports section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The young man who is a flanker playing rugby back in the North Island is among the leaders in the state of Minnesota [...]