For The Excellence Caught This Day

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence. ~Vince Lombardi Seattle Seahawks – 2014 Super Bowl Champions This 12th Man thanks you for the excellence caught this day!

I Am A 12th Man

All right sports fans, February 2, 2014 is Super Bowl XLVIII. For those of you who do not know, or Roman numerals are not your once a year second language, and you may be too embarrassed to ask, that would be 48. And that is a lot of football games since 1967, when the Green […]

Where The Country Mouse Lived

When one is new, or relatively new to an area, the most dreaded of all questions inevitably is asked, “And where are you from ?” Oh boy. You just had to ask, didn’t you? The answer is, “pretty much everywhere”, and it never gets any easier to explain how a family could move an average of […]

Downtown Granny

My son and I were cleaning the seventy-two clams he and my grandson had dug that morning at our local beach, and as we worked together, our conversation turned to some tiny gold scissors I had brought into the kitchen to aid in our task. Our particular clams are small, and we found a really […]

Don’t Want To Ride That Carp

I wish someone had left detailed directions for finding our family’s old fishing holes. There were so many, and each was within an hour’s drive of our home, located somewhere in that grassy rolling land between town and foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I do not know how my dad and grandfather knew of […]