• Why Boxing Is Better

    Images of rubber-nosed old men with their faces bent and battered, morosely muttering away as they empty the spit-buckets and sweep the day’s gatherings from the dimly-lit boxing gym floor; leave us with a less than a romantic vision of the sweet sport of Boxing. The stereotypical movieland boxer...
  • Finding My Dad

    Dad. It’s an important job. The most important one. I was eight years old the last time I called a man dad. He had adopted me after marrying my mother. It didn’t work out for long, he left, and I never heard from him again until I was twenty...
  • Winter At The Beach

    It can get chilly in Las Vegas during winter, and windy. So while the drive is long, traffic is heavy, and it’s often a three movie trip for Jesse, we frequently make a trip to Southern Calfornia to check on Blessed Bodywear production (we do all our manufacturing in...
  • The Barber Shop

    It was the early 1960’s, and there was a barbershop just a few feet away from the door to our apartment. I was fascinated by the the place. It was busy, mysterious, and alive. There were colored tonic bottles, and each had it’s own secret purpose, and there were...
  • Aboard The USS Midway

    Sunset photoshoots on the beach, exquisite meals in amazing little restaurants on India Street in Little Italy, enjoying the shops and tranquility on Coronado Island; these are things Ana loves to do when we are in San Diego. I like to tour the USS Midway, the decommissioned Vietnam War...
  • Because They Can’t See It, Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t There

    There was a girl once, a blonde girl with one of those fancy short haircuts that make you look twice. Not the short ones that women get for efficiency, it was the kind that looks great in slow motion and that just falls into place effortlessly as if God...
  • No Tourists In This Part Of LA

    I’ve done 14 of these trips to LA in the past 16 weeks. It’s what you do when you own your own business, and in our case, own a clothing business where our goods are manufactured in Los Angeles. If you don’t want mistakes to happen, you need to...
  • 2017 Olympia Expo – Day Two – Powerlifting

    Powerlifting is a sport I used to compete at and enjoy watching very much, far more when I have friends competing in the meet. Ben O’Brien and Die Hard Gym owner Tim Sparkes competed in the Olympia Pro Invitational this weekend in Las Vegas and after burning up shoe...
  • 2017 Olympia Expo Tour – Day One

    I took in my first Olympia over 30 years ago and while the faces have changed, the rest is basically the same. Fit girls and guys strutting their stuff, supplement companies trying to one up the competition, clothing companies selling their wares, and an overall festive atmosphere of people...
  • Running Back To The Water

    I was up before four in the morning that day, I had an early appointment in Los Angeles and still needed to make the four and a half-hour-long drive across the hot and barren Mojave desert. It’s cooler at that hour and a better drive. I looked back longingly...
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