Ten years ago I gave up surfing.  At the time I was only able to get into the water occasionally and I wasn’t paddling well.  I recall being in the water at Fort Point, under the Golden Gate Bridge.  I had a hard time getting into the lineup and jockeying for position.  I was not [...]

Back in the summer of 2002, my friends and I took a road trip to see some Major League Baseball games. It’s one of my favorite summer memories of my life. We started our journey in Western New York and drove through Niagara Falls into Canada. There were seven of us, on a mission to [...]

After they had been bathed, brushed, and tucked in for the night I started to tell my five and seven year old daughters a special bedtime story about the time I was stalked by a great white shark out at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.  I started the story with a low and even voice, “It [...]

When I started skateboarding again I knew that I would eventually wind up injured.  It was only a matter of time and a question of how severe.  I made it roughly two months.  In that time I regained my form, exceeded my expectations, and pushed my boundaries.  It got to a point where every time [...]

I was just around the corner and up the street from my house on a gentle but not insignificant slope. I generated some velocity and threw my skateboard into a four wheel slide that drifted for about five feet. At the tail end of the slide just I couldn’t quite keep my feet on the [...]