The Bench
Every morning, before I hit a single putt, I saw him cleaning the bench. Not sitting on it. Cleaning it. The bench sat between the first tee and the practice green, occupying some strangely sacred patch of real estate every golfer in the club was forced to walk past. It wasn’t much to look at. […]
They Also Serve
“They also serve who only stand and wait.” – John Milton, “Oh His Blindness,” 1673 The most difficult sport – the most dangerous sport – I ever did not play was college football. Preceded by high school football. Preceded by football played surreptitiously (in untended overgrown fields, after dark, out of parental sight-range) by still-child-size […]