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Category: my stories

  • My Ano Teaches Me an Important Lesson

    Scene: AA Meeting, Somewhere in Tokyo “Hi, my name is Kerry and I’m a recovering asshole.” As my ol’ buddy, the buddha, once said, “Do bad shit and bad shit happen to you.” Becoming an ad agency executive seemed like a good idea at the time but I didn’t realize the price of admission included…

  • The Big One that Did Not Get Away

      A spectacular day off of Cozumel, Mexico, which must be the bluest place I’ve ever seen. The sky melts into the depths of the ocean, light bouncing off the pure white sands at the bottom, and reflecting back up into the sky as clouds. The blue is so big, so all-encompassing that it shocks…

  • Kendall’s Big Day in the Fishing Sun

    For many years, this image was a fixture on our refrigerator, as our son grew up from a second grader to high school graduate. Faded and stained, the print-out finally bit the dust in a clean-up one year. I rediscovered the original image on a floppy disk(!) and it triggered memories of another great day…

  • Youth is Not Wasted on the Young

      (originally published October 20, 2008) George Bernard Shaw once famously said, “youth is wasted on the young” … which I always thought was a fabulously insightful piece of copy but now I have to disagree. Last week, our 21-year-old son knelt down on one knee, offered a diamond ring, and asked his girl to…