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I have a friend, an "older" gentleman who is somewhere between my dad's age and my own. As I got older myself, we became very good friends and later I stood up at his wedding (his second) as his best man. Some time ago, we were chatting about our fathers, manhood,...

Too long since last post, but life has a way of dictating that I will spend time writing only legal matters.Tim O'Brien writes eloquently about courage, though I think he's gotten it wrong in an essential aspect. He raises troubling questions, however, that shouldn't...

In my last post I ended with a video of Deborah Cordner Carson from the 2012 CrossFit Games. Carson is seen crying at confronting an ocean swim. Carson is extraordinarily fit, probably in the top 1% of women on the planet by most metrics, and last year was DQ'd on the...

I thought this was going to be one post, but not so. This is going to take a few parts to get all the way through. When I was a young Lieutenant - and even before that at Officer Candidate School - we learned the acronym for the Marine Corps' 14 Leadership Principles...

In the summer of 2007, I was a year-and-a-half into my journey with CrossFit. When Coach Glassman and the main page announced slots for the 1st CrossFit Games to be held in Aromas, CA, I checked my schedule and saw that I was going to be on the west coast for a court...