Steve's Writing

I was never an athlete.   Team sports? Just one summer in Little League baseball. That was a disaster: couldn't hit, couldn't run, c...

In the film  Groundhog Day ,   Phil Connors  woke up at least 3,650 mornings to find he was still in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, forced to r...

One of my favorite film moments comes from Mel Brooks’  History of the World, Part One . In the scene, Moses comes down from the mountain cr...

  The first time I saw Daniel, he was in our high school cafeteria, sitting at a table for eight with seven empty chairs. He had lank blond ...

Each weekday morning of my childhood—thousands of them—started out pretty much the same way. I awoke to the fragrance of coffee and the pook...

If not for the musical  The Man of La Mancha , I might never have read Cervantes’ classic novel  Don Quixote . But because I did, I learned ...

Stephen Covey’s “Big Rocks” story goes something like this: An expert on priorities made a presentation to a group of high-powered overachie...