Monument BLOG

I sure is nice to be home for a while. I love to travel, but being home for about 12 weeks straight will help prepare me for the upcoming competition season when I'll be gone a lot of the time again. I will post the tournaments I'm heading to as I get them set up. I...

It was a great summer of camps, but I am happy to be home. I was away for two full weeks, and that was a bit exhausting, esp. when I flew from San Jose, CA to Jacksonville, FL a week ago Sunday, then had to get up the next morning essentially 3 hours earlier and start...

I am in Jacksonville, FL for my last camp of the summer. It has been a great set of camps, and the students have been wonderful. But it is time to get back to my family. I will have been gone for two weeks straight, with last week being my 41st wedding anniversary. I...

Today, Monday, August 3, is the 41st Anniversary for my wife and I. Can you believe she has put up with me for 41 years? She is a strong woman. We are celebrating this milestone by me being in California doing a Monument Camp. This is how we have celebrated the last 4...

This has been a harder last few days than I have had in a while. Not physically. My physical heart is doing great still. Emotionally, it has been tough.  This past Saturday, one of my daughters came into my office. She looked very upset and asked to talk to me....

I was at church Sunday morning and I was asked if I was in my less busy time now that the Speech and Debate season was over. I chuckled and said that I was flying to Phoenix that afternoon to do a 4 day camp, then Baton Rouge the week after that, then San Jose the...

A lot has happened this week. We just completed Rhetoric in the Rockies, and it was a great camp. The facility was wonderful, and the event itself was incredible.  The big news of the week though is that long time Senator Lindsay Graham passed away suddenly and...

We had a great weekend with our family. We celebrated Independence Day at my son's place and we did our own fireworks there. Our city, like many others, banned fireworks within the city limits, but almost no one followed that decree, as evidenced by the vast amounts...

My Monument Monday is out a bit later today than normal. Mainly because I went to see my cardiologist today for my post echo visit. The doctor said I was continuing to do very well. So well, in fact, that he took me off ALL of my heart medications!!! I was hoping for...

Hello from Hanoi, Vietnam, a city of 9 million people, and 7 million scooters, and where it is currently Tuesday morning for me, and Monday evening for you right now. It has been quite the experience so far. The people here are so very kind, the tournament staff has...

My family got together yesterday (Sunday), which is very normal for us. It usually begins with 4 to 5 hours of volleyball at a park, but the weather looked to be too windy, so my son decided to cancel this week. So, we got together in the early afternoon and played...

A lot has happened this past week. I had my follow up echo, which I already wrote about. I finished Matthew and Mark over the weekend and today. And my home club had our end of year party for which I smoked brisket, pork, and ribs. It was a great time. The parents sat...