by Lance Loya | Aug 25, 2020
Florida is blessed with lots of interesting birds, many of which I had never encountered before I moved to the Sunshine state. The Sandhill Crane falls into this category. I am not much of a birdwatcher. I tend to view birds the way Orson Welles viewed art (“I don’t...
by Lance Loya | Aug 18, 2020
A few months after Be a Good Teammate was published, I found myself standing at the end of my driveway waiting on the school bus to pick my daughters up for their first day of school. My daughters were insistent that I use my phone that morning to record a video of...
by Lance Loya | Aug 11, 2020
Conversing with people who have no filter can be brutal. They speak without tact, subtlety, or consideration. They seem to vocalize whatever thoughts pop into their heads, leaving us to wonder: Do they ever think about what they say before they say it? Whenever they...
by Lance Loya | Aug 4, 2020
I have been binge watching the legal drama How to Get Away with Murder on Netflix. In full disclosure (*pun intended), it is not the type of television show that normally appeals to me. I just sort of stumbled upon it and fell down the binge-watching rabbit hole. If...
by Lance Loya | Jul 28, 2020
A veteran gymnastics coach was eating dinner with his wife when he began to complain about his day. The coach loved what he did for a living and he loved his athletes. But he had grown increasingly frustrated by the way their parents were interfering with the training...