Easing the Pain of Losing Your Father
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Neil Chethik was twenty-seven years old when he first heard his father cry. “In 1984,” Chethik recalled, “my paternal grandfather died suddenly. I was living a few blocks from him at the time. My father came to town the next day, and we spent an afternoon going through my grandfather’s apartment. My father began […]
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Did a Case of the Yips Cost Mikaela Shiffrin Olympic Gold?
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“I can’t explain to you how frustrated I am,” Mikaela Shiffrin told reporters in Beijing during the recent Olympic Games. “I have to fix something but I don’t know what I am supposed to fix.” The 26-year old native of Vail, Colorado, widely believed to be the greatest alpine skier in history, had just […]
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Marilyn Bergman: One of the Most Successful Songwriters in History
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Frank Sinatra typically did not like to have songwriters attend recording sessions. But, on April 13, 1960, he made an exception for lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman. The two were allowed to sit in the control room of Studio A at Capital Records in Hollywood for the cutting of Nice ‘N’ Easy, a song the Bergmans had […]
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Understanding the Greek Roots of the Olympic Games
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“The most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the fight; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.” Those are the famous words of the father of modern Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. It was the Baron who spearheaded the 1896 return to the ancient games: they […]
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Positive Expectations Can Improve the Quality of Your Aging
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Are you getting older and getting tired of it? Do you look back fondly on the days when you didn’t know the name of a urologist? Or, when you considered an afternoon nap a waste of time? How about when bedtime was right after Johnny Carson’s monologue? And all the gradual issues of forgetfulness and […]
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