So, I rowed the Head of the Charles today and – as our President would say of Iraq – there’s a lot of good news. For example, I did not flip my scull over, as several people did. (One...

I told my son, Tim, today that I wished I were in better shape for the Head of The Charles and he just started to laugh. "At your age, for heaven’s sake, the entire point is doing it at...

Because I am in the business, sort of, I decided to put together something of a home gym in this barn we have, up here in Lakeville. Just a couple of aerobic gadgets (a Concept II rowing machine, an...

There apparently is a very fancy health club in Concord, outside Boston, called the Thoreau Club. What Henry T. himself would have made of health clubs, I have no idea, but this one is a beaut. Among the things...

Okay, not too long before wind down. for the great race in Cambridge. So gotta hit it. Today got to the lake at 10….big mistake. Wind howling. Go out anyway…scare myself half to death. Row for an hour but almost...

It’s week to the Head of the Charles and tensions mount. Roared out the door at six this morning and there was ICE in the driveway. The hell with it…went back in for breakfast…let that pesky ice melt before I...