by Eddie Pipkin Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay Last week, I wrote about hiking in the stunning Yosemite Valley. I did this trip with a high school buddy, one of my oldest and dearest friends. We’ve been doing trips together on a semi-annual basis for 40 years. Scheduling adventure trips or biking [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Photo by Pipkin. I was blessed to do a week of backpacking in Yosemite National Park recently. Truly spectacular. If the word spectacular was invented to describe visually stunning scenery, it found its apotheosis in describing the Yosemite valley. It was a bucket list trip, and you get the treat [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by bunditz from Pixabay What to keep and what to get rid of? It’s a modern dilemma. We are so blessed, our homes so filled with stuffthatwe’re constantly having to think about what should stay and what should go. Or we’re scheming ways to keep asmuch as possible! But [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by David from Pixabay My wife and I took a little excursion over to SeaWorld to ride the new roller coaster, Penguin Trek. It’s always a thrill to ride a new ride for the first time, and beyond the experience of the coaster itself, part of the fun is [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Uwe Baumann from Pixabay I had a good friend who was telling me about attending one of those “Sip & Paint” events. She does this on occasion, meet up with some pals for a glass of wine and a guided painting session. None of them are artists, not [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay I had mentioned in other blog entries in the past few weeks that NBC had noted significant gains in viewer engagement for their Olympics coverage this year. This good news for the network followed the debacle of viewership non-interest during the previous, pandemic delayed [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay One last thought on the just completed Olympic games. In all the hoopla over the superhuman performances of American gymnast Simone Biles, it’s important to remember that this wasn’t just any gold medal performance. This was an epic comeback story. Having dramatically withdrawn from [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Tania Dimas from Pixabay It has continued to be all-Olympics viewing all the time at my house! What a great games it has been, so many dramatic and inspiring stories. You see the joy in the winners’ faces, as they jump about the track or the pool or [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Mickey Mikolauskas from Pixabay Well, if you’ve been watching the Olympics on NBC and affiliated networks, you’ve been front and center as they bring in a new generation of commentators and reporters. The ratings from the last Olympics, delayed by the pandemic and devoid of crowd energy, were [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by David from Pixabay It’s time for the XXXIII Olympiad, Paris 2024, and I hope you’ve blocked off your calendar to watch some of the 329 medal events that will feature athletes from around the world competing in traditional demonstrations of physical prowess – running, rowing, and pole vaulting, [...]
