[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8egku_a4o5I&hl=en_US&fs=1&] After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958 I figured after the Polar Bear Plunge that I should do […]

“Every day do something that scares you.” Eleanor Roosevelt [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoiZULN49lY&hl=en_US&fs=1&]I feel fearless today. I ran into the freezing cold Atlantic with guys in speedos and women in polar bear pajamas. I scraped my knee, I can’t get the sand out of my ears and I think I stepped on something that will have to be […]

So I have to admit I’m terrified! I’ve committed to doing the Polar Bear Plunge New Year’s Day tomorrow in Atlantic City. (11:30 am near the Resorts Casino) I’ve told all my friends and I’m telling YOU I’m doing it.  There’s no backing out now unless ridiculously bad weather prevents me from getting there. AHHHHH [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t83IMGDJOq8&hl=en_US&fs=1&] […]

One year of firsts…. When we are children, our lives are full of firsts: first steps, first grade, first wish, first kiss, first love. There seems to be an endless stream of “firsts”. At some point, though, there are fewer “firsts”. We forget what it’s like to discover something new. After a while we tend […]