Dr. Darrell White s Personal Blog
1) Theo. Purple Marlins fly in cursive . Why yes, yes they do. 2) Lila. What does it sound like when you read in cursive? It sounds like music my darling girl. Like music! 3) Cape Week. This past week would have been Cape Week. That magical week each year when my siblings, our spouses, most [ ]
I’ve been engaged in conversations in many venues of late on the topic of opportunity. Specifically whether there is equality of opportunity in America, and whether there is somehow a fundamental difference in that opportunity today versus any yesterday. As the father of 3, employer of many, and mentor to countless more, it’s a topic [ ]
The Interwebs are chocablock filled with the musings and bleating of people who feel they have been denied an opportunity. Some of these expressions are thoughtful, but really, most of them are simply expressions of envy and its cousin resentment. Reading just a bit deeper and one finds evidence of the challenges one creates when [ ]
In an airport, once again, traveling between friends and family, family and friends. Sadly, I m on my own for these couple of legs. This sandwich generation stuff is getting harder by the day. MCO to BOS this morning as I travel from the funeral of my best friend s Dad to what looks like an abridged [ ]
1) Susurrus. A soft rustling, murmuring, or whispering sound. At the moment emanating from my inland ocean and surrounding me in a cocoon of calm. 2) Verbivore. One who consumes literature. Found in Theo of Golden , a self-published novel eventually picked up by a traditional publisher after wracking up some 250,000 or so sales while [ ]
Let s talk next level. As in that level to which the ridiculously large percentage of participants never get to. You probably think this is about going pro, about making a living at your sport. Nope. That number is so tiny and has been parsed so many times and so many ways that it s not worth [ ]
Not gonna lie, being an active participant in all things CrossFit made writing Sunday musings almost effortless. CrossFit as muse, if you will. There was science and structure. Man, you should have seen the minutiae we parsed on the Message Board back in the days when it was all about the Cybergym. When I started [ ]
DNA always wins. In the fitness world, and sometimes even at that tiny intersection where fitness and health or healthcare cross paths, there is a recurring theme: you can t out-train a bad diet. For whatever it s worth, I think that s true. Having said so there is a dangling little assumption that hangs off the back [ ]
Billy Ray (not his real name, of course) turned off his implantable defibrillator (ICD) yesterday. Billy Ray is 44. In my day job I was asked to evaluate him for a problem in my specialty. I was told he was about to enter hospice care and assumed that he was much, much older and simply [ ]
Our worst critics prefer to stay. I spent yesterday morning as I often do on a Saturday, immersed in the conveyance of culture that is the network morning news show. My favored flavor happens to the NBC s version, The Today Show, but excepting the familiarity and continuity of my decades spent with Today, CBS and [ ]