The Hockey Player
It was 3 am on a frigid, January morning in 1976. My mom blinded my sleep-filled eyes when she turned on my bedroom light. “Tommy! Time to get up for hockey practice!” she said. I groggily tossed on my clothes and my Philadelphia Flyers knit cap, grabbed my hockey gear and went out to mom’s […]
The Race of a Lifetime
I ran my ass off that day. It was in the fall of 1982 when I was a scrawny, 94-pound freshman at Farmington Harrison High School in Farmington Hills, MI. I was 5’6” tall and I was really scrawny, but probably because I was on the Boy’s Cross Country team running 10 miles per day […]