Yesterday would have been Steve Wilkinson’s 76th birthday.  And I forgot.  He would have been ok with that. One of my favorite memories of Steve…

One of my pet peeves is when I hear an announcer say, “Well, they may not have won, but they gave it 110%!”  Or a…

Five years ago today Tennis & Life Camps was changed for good forever.  What happened that day is, in my estimation, the most important reason…

Love, Love.  It’s how every tennis match begins.  Being Valentine’s Day, let me tell you a tennis love story.  It is not what you think.…

Steve died two years ago today.  Sometimes it feels like two hundred.  Sometimes it feels like two minutes.  I expect to turn a corner and…

Sometimes, in a world seemingly consumed by fear and suspicion of “the other,” darkness washes over me and I consider giving into despair.  Sometimes the…

I was playing against an opponent who would normally beat me eight times out of ten.  Okay, nine times out of ten.  I realized my…

I woke up last week with a start in the middle of the night and could not sleep again. What I have heard from campers…

I love to win. Let’s just put that out there. Who doesn’t? But what makes a champion? I witnessed history last week. The scoreboard says…

We’re in the girls’ high school tourney season in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Which makes me pause. And wonder. When the competition heats up, do we…