Category Archives: On and Off the Track

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Aspiring for Humility… and the cost of Pride

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Please note, if you’ve come today looking for a Wednesday’s Relationship Corner blog, I will post something later this week on that topic. Today’s blog is a continuation from my previous blog on arrogance. I believe arrogance and pride are closely related, and the strongest deterrent to these vices is...
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Putting Students First – ACHTUNG Series!!!

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Although Wednesday’s have been traditionally reserved for those “relationship blogs” I’m sorry to disappoint, you’ll have to wait until next week. Today I have to do an “ACHTUNG” blog. After many months of silently boiling with frustration yesterday I finally reached my tipping point. Argggggghhhh! I am angry, annoyed, and...
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Woooooooooooooow!  It feels like it has been forever since I’ve last blogged.  Oh, wait a second… It has been.  Shame on me…  All I can say, is I’ve had more changes and developments in my life in the last few months that I feel like a moth in a cocoon...
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A Bittersweet Victory!

Fighting for this height... literally! Look closely and you'll notice my left ankle is taped up... Just 3 days earlier I tore 3 ligaments in my jump ankle in training accident.
Sometimes there are truly no words to express how you feel… and for someone like me who seems to always have a lot to say, at this moment I can truly say I am lost for words, but I will try. Yesterday, I won my last Canadian Championship, but failed...
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Saying Goodbye to 2 Great Legends

To say this has been a hard week is an understatement.  On Saturday I learned of the death of a dear coach, Red Simmons, and just two days later on Monday, the beloved journalist Randy Starkman had passed away.  Both of these individuals were important to me and both of...
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A Victim of Stealing & Lying

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Last week I posted on Twitter and Facebook:  “Some people forget that stealing doesn’t just involve breaking and entering. There are other shades of stealing, involving intellectual property or plagiarism. But the real crime is when a friend or someone you hold in high regards commits this crime… And you...
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Confessions of a Junky

Like everyone I have an embarrassing and guilty pleasure.  I’m not proud of it, but if there is an addiction I must live with, I guess I can resign myself to this:  The Bachelor.  I don’t watch a lot of television, but you can bet every Monday between 8 and...
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