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I'm an Eisenhower baby brought up in New York City and have lived, studied or worked in every one of its boroughs. Now I live in quiet, semi-rural Ocean County, New Jersey and love it.

Among my passions are baseball, fast-pitch softball, Italian food, detail-rich non-fiction, general interest magazines, libraries, the Internet, English and Italian professional soccer, strong coffee, uncrowded parks, boardwalks, lighthouses, Elvis, Sinatra and the Beatles, the Roman Catholic Church, old movies and my wife.

My passion is ...

A piece well written

I know too much about ...

Dialogue from certain movies

My parents always told me ...

that carrots improved eyesight. They were wrong.

My childhood ambition ...

To play for the Los Angeles Dodgers

My favorite memory ...

The long, carefree summer days of youth

Why I write ...

It's too late to be Pope now.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Steinbeck, McPhee, public radio, sports radio, MSNBC

My first job ...

Summer clerk/gofer at a NYC manufacturing company

My best moment ...

I don't think it's arrived yet

My inspiration ...

The need to make a mark

Sports & Recreation > Golf How to chip a golf ball

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During the 2005 Masters, Tiger Woods found himself in the light rough bordering Augusta National's 16th green, his ball nestled against the heavy rough, a spot from which many golfers begin their journey to a bogey or worse. He addressed the situation by adding to his legend and holing the next shot, unlike practically everyone else on the planet, but he did it the same way any intelligent Sunday golfer would. He chipped. The chip is an essential shot in the golfer's short game, designed to handle that nettlesome distance that's too short to drive and too long to putt. Often, the difficult...

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