Archive For April 21, 2018
This piece was originally written for Track & Field News (1991) and appears in When Running Was Young and So Were We. Steve Spence knew how to get ready for the day he needed to be ready. Track and field became so mesmerizing these past few months, I didn’t give much thought to road racing. First…
Every single nest of leadership has gone over the edge. The White House, Congress, the Governor, the state legislature, the county commission, the home owners association… Don’t forget our local Sheriff’s department, the fire department and the school system. That’s just officialdom. We can forget Fox News and Sinclair and Facebook. They can be ignored….
With all due respect, I don’t get confused. – Nikki Haley With all due respect to Ambassador Nikki Haley, I do get confused. Can you still be a germaphobe if you are rawdogging Playboy models and porn actresses? If you go bankrupt four times, how does that make you a great businessman? Evangelical Christians forgave…
If you have no good drive in you, your life will not be steered through a good direction. It will miss its destined station. Passion or drive is what moves the vehicle of a fulfilled life. ― Israelmore Ayivor From August 8, 1990. – JDW I gave up childhood dreams of auto racing when Miss Harple, the…
My good friend Alex Fitzgerald is generally acknowledged to be the poker world’s best teacher. He plays pretty good, too. He sent me this “really useful article” last month. Poker is life and life is poker. The same rules apply. – JDW Hey guys, I wanted to send you a really useful article today, because,…
From April 4, 1990. When there were fewer people and less horror. – JDW Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh – erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can’t you just see it? Don’t dream it, be it. – Dr. Frank-N-Furter I have…
Once you decide you are an artist – and mean it – the rest falls away like the clothes of a lover. – Barker Ajax The nerve of some people. Just because he says he’s my doctor. He asked me a question I often ask myself, why do you write? Good question. That’s why he…
Ed Eyestone was named – by no less a leading authority than myself – Best U.S. Roadie of 1990 by Track & Field News. January 1991. – JDW In Bountiful, Utah, the phone rang. Ed Eyestone stopped putting away the Christmas lights long enough to take the call. After convincing Erica, age 2½, she’d be…
From September 13, 1989. – JDW He was alone. He was unheeded, happy and near the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and willful and wildhearted, alone amidst a waste of wild air and brackish waters… and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. – James Joyce. I, on the other hand, was not…
I wanted more money. I continually irritated advertisers. I was replaced by Erma Bombeck, who was less expensive and less irritating. From October 18, 1989. – JDW When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say,…