Lily and Maya with their snorkeling instructor this afternoon at Denver Divers.
Occasionally the full ridiculousness of modern, rich-country existence slaps you square on the cheek. It should happen more often. This morning, I was washing off fresh raspberries when I told Maya, 8, "You know, this is kind of miraculous. It's two degrees Fahrenheit outside…
My daughter Lily is a fourth grader at Lowry Elementary School, a Denver Public School. I like the school a lot, her teachers, the fact that its students span a wide range or race and economic backgrounds. But they've been wasting her time -- and that of all her classmates -- for the past two…
I watched a bit of the U.S.-Honduras soccer game of Wednesday night -- the first of several World Cup qualifiers in the "hexagonal round" (how about "round of six," for clarity's sake, FIFA?).
The U.S. Men's National Team (USMNT, not to be confused with POTUS or SCOTUS) lost 2-1 to a country with one-fortieth of the…
My #TEDxMileHigh talk, "Colorado Mavericks," is up on YouTube at http://bit.ly/SvJvqT; a bit of background here: http://bit.ly/JM8xly.
Final draft of the talk:
Making the leap
I’m Todd Neff. So many stories of epic success (personal and professional, in business, politics, sports, sciences, the arts) involve some huge risk – some leap into the void – that paid off…
Peregrine feathers. Maybe.
I’m getting into road biking, seeing that soccer, even over-30 coed, is not a long-term fitness solution for 43-year-olds. On July 4, I went for a morning ride with my friend Greg Laugero.
Greg was a late arrival to cycling, I think roughly my age when he started a couple of years back. But…