Rory’s Blog

Strong Opinions, Held Loosely

  • FanDuel Made Me a Baseball Dad (Sort Of)

    Kids have a funny way of dictating your interests, and sometimes even making you compromise your own principles. In my case, a few months ago my son James started playing baseball—a sport I abandoned at age 7, precisely the moment I was asked to hit a ball that was moving. I had actually been an…

  • Not No Quarter at Aldi

    “The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” — William Wordsworth

  • Aging, One Tooth at a Time

    “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” – Marcus Aurelius I went to the oral surgeon last week to get a wisdom tooth pulled that wasn’t ready to come out when I was 15. I remember the doctor telling me back in 1995, “Someday, this is…