All Entries in the "Family" Category
Demando and Commando
It starts early in the evening, like a slow drip from a faucet. The requests, the questions, the “problems” and the manipulations. Then, the slow drip progresses swiftly to a flash flood. Rapid-fire requests, complex questions with a degree of difficulty rivaling an SAT, major issues requiring immediate attention and even more requests on top of more and more [...]
Doing What’s Right: Too Hard for Too Many
By Christopher Gabriel, Blog Harbor When I was growing up, we had a neighbor named Mr. Detwiler. He was our neighborhood’s official Mean Guy. He didn’t speak to anyone; he didn’t acknowledge anyone. At least that’s how he treated all the kids. And because of it, he became The Guy No One Liked. It was [...]
Lives Too Easily Forgotten
This past Tuesday I set off to central Wisconsin on what began as little more than one more thing on this week’s “to-do list.” In between a couple of very important lunches, a meeting with the program director of what might become my new radio home and watching the pivotal SEC basketball game between Florida and [...]
Obama, Huckabee and . . . Britney?
By Christopher Gabriel, Blog Harbor In what proved to be an historic evening at the Iowa Caucuses, Barack Obama became the first African-American to win a primary or caucus. In a state with a population that is 95% white, it’s quite obvious it wasn’t the minority vote, be it black or Hispanic, that put him over the [...]
The Simple Language of Parenting and Football Coaches
I was watching ESPN last week and they were doing a piece on some of the top assistant coaches in college football that should be in line for head coaching jobs in the next year or two. As the film rolled, one coach after another was shown on the sideline going through a series of hand gestures and body [...]
My Daughter, A Snowman and a Lesson
It’s the first week of December here in Minneapolis and it’s snowing. A lot. If you’re scoring at home, today’s heavy snow makes it two large snow days over the past 96 hours. 10 years ago, no one would blink at that. But it’s been at least four years since that kind of snow has fallen [...]
