Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
Well, with a little help from my family… actually a lot of help… I finally have a new web page up for ol dad! I was starting to feel a little ‘dated’… and as my daughters say,”hobo.”
Karla took the picture of Laura and me and the the great background shot of the Monterey Bay aquarium… and since I do enjoy my family’s various interests and links, I added a few of theirs. Now, if only they would wear the web cam I gave them! Ha!
Roger Freberg
Karla enjoyed her Easter Eggs this year with some creative and unique designs… mostly of Animal Prints.
Happy Easter!
Roger Freberg
Recently, Laura and I went back to a couple of high school track meets … it is always fun to see ambitious young athletes striving for perfection. What struck me very odd was some of the old feelings of foreboding. Then I saw some familiar track coaches and I realized why. They think the sport is all about them. As ‘Maranda’ said, “Don’t be silly, everyone wants to be us!”
Sports — contrary to folks like Florida’s Urban Myer –should be about athletes and at the high school level should be as much about their future beyond athletics as their future as an athlete.
Coaching should be as much about mentoring and personal development as about athletic performance. I have always respected coaches who can do both… they employ the power of positive coaching and work towards the personal development of the athletes in fields other than their sport. Just like the late great Coach of Grambling University, they are loved by their athletes for reasons beyond their sport.
I see Head Track & Field Coach Ron Allice of the Southern California Trojans in that rare breed of ‘mentoring’ coaches. He definitely has his ‘eye on the prize’, he wants to win, but he supports his athletes to be all they can be in life.
Roger Freberg
We just got back from a Los Angeles “Avengers” Game… arena football at it’s very best! Karen got tickets for us and it was a great night of real football! First, we started at the Staples Center in los Angeles and we walk in and recieve a free gift! It was a mini Jersey of the starting quarterback Sonny Combie… and it never stopped… with the Avengers scoring over 50 points everyone was treated to a coupon for a free burger at Carl’s Junior and a free Shake at Weinerschnizel! The cool word here is FREE!!!!
We drove home to San Luis Obispo… and I had to show off my new Southern Cal Blanket with Tommy Trojan… munching my favorite salad… and relaxing!
Special Thanks to Karen & Karen’s Professor Tamanaha for a great look at the Avengers!
Roger Freberg
My daughter Karen found a great site to buy perfume… or at least to buy affordable samples. Now, with three daughters, a wife and a zillion female relatives… I have tried to keep up with all the new products that have flooded mankind in the past dozen years.
Frankly, often there is nothing special about many of the ‘celebrity perfumes’… I mean, Paris Hilton’s actually has ‘pheromones’… but the scent makes a woman smell cheap… but maybe that’s the point.
I have always enjoyed women who wear perfumes from the famous House of Guerlain. Interestingly enough, an internet site offers a ‘sampler’ pack of some of their most well known…includnig: Shalimar, Champs-Elysees, Mahora, Samsara… and my personal favorite… Mitsouko. Check it out … only $40 or so.
Roger Freberg