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You Won’t Win Them All

Everyone wants to win. Everyone wants to be a winner. As we grow up, we are told that we can be anything we want. We can do anything we like. Unfortunately, the world has other plans for all of us.

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The Basics In Social Media

Particularly after 2020, parks and recreation professionals are busier than ever. Increased traffic during quarantine and a long-standing funding deficit have caused professionals to focus on a park’s physical presence and ignore any attempts at a digital presence.

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Scary Scenarios

When you think about youth sports, the first vision might be of kids with big smiles running up and down a field chasing a soccer ball.

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Move On

My wife and I are often amused at some evening television that involves troubled adults who just can’t settle with their childhoods and the way their parents screwed up their lives.

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Heat-Related Illness Protection

Only a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to direct a video shoot with Martin McNair at the Xfinity Center on the University of Maryland campus in College Park.

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Turn The Page

Now, in my second year of retirement, my children tell me I am assembling a sizable list of “get-off-my-lawn”-type platitudes.

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Get Staff Involved!

Everyone involved in managing or operating a parks and recreation agency has a stake in the employee performance-appraisal process.

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NAYS Celebrates 40 Years

2021 marks 40 years since the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) was founded as the National Youth Sports Coaches Association.

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Exercise Authority

I love taking a walk during the pre-dawn hours when the world is still half-asleep. I see houses and neighborhoods come alive. A light turns on here or there. As a man retrieves the morning paper, he sees me, nods, and waves. I smile. No words are exchanged.

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Gentle Complaining

I love my job. I wanted to be a recreation director since I was 13 years old. And I remind myself every day that it’s 1,000 times better than sitting in a cubicle somewhere.

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Tap Into Olympic Mindset

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I really appreciated the Olympics—particularly the Summer Olympics. There were so many life-changing events connected to the Games, which brought the best athletes in the world together every four years.

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The Many Faces Of Patriotism

In 1945, RKO Radio and Frank Sinatra released a song and an accompanying video entitled “The House I Live In.” The project was intended to support national brotherhood and bolster belief in a united America.

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