CLIPS (INTERNATIONALS)
CLIPS I spent a lot of effort on the international issue. Below are some clips, or comments from other related articles. http://www.tomparham.wordpress.com has these articles and more in toto. Anyway–to start the new year how about the SIX BY SIX plan? There are six singles players in the standard team format. There are also 6 …
HELP! I NEED SOMEBODY
Ron Smarr is a life-time coach and a life-friend. I asked him to “coach” me on this chapter on coaching. Coach Smarr has coached many players and fellow coaches. Me included. Recently he was a major help in providing “THE LITTLE GREEN BOOK of TENNIS for every high school coach and player in North Carolina. …
ONIONS
NEW YORK TIMES (March 23, 2021) “In the last decade or so, UConn and other top programs have increasingly sought players from Europe, Canada, Australia and Africa, as a growing parity in college basketball has made recruiting increasingly competitive. There were four different women’s champions in the four seasons before the coronavirus pandemic canceled the …
SIPPING
My wife is one of six kids. The funniest is Raymond. He is also the best and most consistent beer drinker. We zoomed the remaining siblings today. During the session someone asked a question of Ray, noting there was no beer in hand. “Haven’t had a beer since November” Ray informed us. Silence. “I do …
“TAKE A LOAD OFF ANNIE”
‘The Point” at Emerald Isle changes daily. At low tide sand now splits the channel half in two. Wife type viewed it earlier today and mused “I think one could swim over to Bear Island at low tide. Maybe Nancy and I will try that. We would probably need life preservers.” and SEA TOW. Oops–I …
PANDEMIC WARDROBE
My wife’s friend was describing a beachfront property that had a walk-in clothes closet with a dry cleaner’s style revolving clothes rack. When we got home I suggested we could easily this with the clothes I have worn this year (two pairs of jeans, two pairs of shorts, three tee shirts, two flannel shirts and …
MAKE UP YOUR MIND
Single in 1965 I never cooked. Married in 2021 –still can’t. When my roommates Joe Robinson and Phil Nordan and I got off work someone would eventually say “lets go eat”! Next would be “where do you want to go?” Then ” I don’t care Anywhere is fine with me.” Then, “me either”. Next–“…nah–I don’t …
JUKE BOX—A NEW CHAPTER
The passage below is from an earlier book i wrote. About the jukebox and me. And Coach Bill Morningstar. ‘Star called recently asking if i wanted the jukebox back? He had it for ten years plus. enjoyed it, but needed the space. “Should I just junk it?” he asked. It had some problems and Bill …
PEOPLE GET READY
I was in Mrs. McCollom’s 3rd grade class room in Madison, NCin 1948. Some how it dawned on me that the others were reading better than I. Not only that — I figured out I’d assumed up to that point that reading didn’t matter that much to a pro quarterback. Yuval Harari’s formula had not …
THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL
One of my grandsons, Lennox, is undefeated. Told me so. He is five and lives in Boulder and we Facetime frequently. We were talking earlier this week and I remembered to ask him if he had received the letter I had recently mailed him. He looked quizzically at his Dad who said it had not …
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