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 […]
The Week In Sports #8: Baseball Roadtrip, Michael Vick, Surfing, and more
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 […]
[INTO THE DAWN] Ocean Beach Bedtime Story
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 […]
[INTO THE DAWN] Skating Days Were Numbered
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, […]
[INTO THE DAWN] The Slide
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 […]