Wednesday Blog

  • 15-21 June 2014 – “Les Roberts”

    Les Roberts There once was a team of rowers known as the Bears. Now these weren’t your average sort of rowers whose mascot was a bear, but actual big, furry, growling with fangs and big pointy teeth bears. Like the kind that steal your peanut butter on camping holidays. They trained long and hard on Read more

  • F1 Midweek – Schumacher update and looking ahead to Austria

    Kansas City – If you haven’t heard, on Monday seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher at long last came out of his coma that had been caused by a skiing accident on 29 December at the French resort of Meribel. That being said, after having been in a state of comatose for that long, it Read more

  • 18 June 2014 – Humidity

    I don’t know what I would have done in decades past prior to the invention the fantastic invention of air conditioning. As it turns out, I probably would have most undoubtedly sweated to death in these unreasonably humid Kansas City summers. There is something quite pleasant that comes to mind when one steps out of Read more

  • 17 June 2014 – A Musical World

    There is music in the world it flows in the winds it flowers on the trees. There is music in the world which blossoms with each new life and is releas’d into the cosmos with each passing death. There is music in the world that makes us all happy that makes us cry. All this Read more

  • 16 June 2014 – Late Winter Journeys

    I dreamt last night that some friends and I met in a café in Chicago. There we chatted, laughed, and told stories until unbeknownst to me the time came for my friends to take up and leave. “Where are you going?” I asked them, “You’ll see, just wait there,” they replied smiling. I sat on Read more

  • The Fantastic Growth of American Soccer

    Kansas City – If I were to tell my 13 year old self who didn’t care at all about the 2006 World Cup in Germany that I spent the entirety of this afternoon and evening watching the 2014 World Cup from Brazil, my younger self would probably be shocked. For me, like many of my fellow Read more