Rory’s Blog

Strong Opinions, Held Loosely

  • The Real Culprit

    I’ve begun a regular practice of one-on-one lunch meetings with students. And while spending so much time in the cafeteria has changed my views on a lot of things (for example, unlike in the movies it’s quite civil in there and the food is actually decent), it has only solidified my view on something else.…

  • How wrong I was: golf as a dad

    adapted from the “Against the Grain” column in the August 2016 issue of Golf Chicago Magazine “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. — from Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson…

  • Know Thyself: Golf as Religion

    adapted from the June/July 2016 issue of Golf Chicago Magazine Religion: 1: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. 2: a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. So when Karl Marx said, “Religion is the opiate of the people,” he was referring to…