Ralph on Relationships: The Mutual Friends With an Enemy

January 25th, 2012 Posted in Advice, Opinion, PINO PER DIEM, Relationships
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THINGS DON'T SEEM RIGHT.

THINGS DON'T SEEM RIGHT.

This is dedicated to one Mr. Buckley, European History sophomore teacher extraordinaire: an extraordinary man who unbeknownst to me helped me subconsciously cultivates my lust and love for all things history.

Long before he inspired me though, I was a wise fool, just going through the motions, waiting for basketball practice.  He then presented me, along with the rest of my cohorts in our 10th grade European History (when he wasn’t throwing garbage cans to a snoozing Jamel Cooke) with a proverb that was attached …

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What I Learned on Sunday: The Many Faces of Fans.

January 23rd, 2012 Posted in Advice, Opinion, PINO PER DIEM, Sports 365, Sunday Learning
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LEE EVANS. DROPPED IT LIKE IT'S NOT.

LEE EVANS. DROPPED IT LIKE IT'S NOT.

Truth be told, through and through, I’m a Baltimore Ravens fan.  It’s the National Football League, and it seems as though America and their fans have a maniacal obsession with their respective teams.  I just so happen to live close to Baltimore, but far enough for no one to share my sentiment in love for the team.  NY, naturally and rightly so, is scattered with Giant and Jet fans all over.

The fate of the Raven season was sealed by a wide …

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RALPH ON RELATIONSHIPS: BEATING THE ODDS IN AGE.

January 19th, 2012 Posted in Advice, Opinion, PINO PER DIEM, Relationships
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YOUNG ADULTS.

YOUNG ADULTS.

IS AGE REALLY JUST A NUMBER?

It’s true: age is but a number, yet there are so many more facets that get tacked onto that integer.  There’s upbringing, environment, experience, perception, maturity just to name a few that support the story as a whole. Consider the stories of the younger, a position I’ve known in my former life all to well.  I can think of an instance of this young lady by the age of 26, and I at the tender number of 21, courting her attention …

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HOW TO TUESDAY: HOW TO DOCUMENT.

January 10th, 2012 Posted in Advice, How-To Tuesdays, Opinion, PINO PER DIEM
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Movies 2012.

Movies 2012.

In the Four-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss, he gives you interesting, to say the least, tips on how to relearn what you think about health and fitness.  It’s a recommended read, but I wanted to quarantine something he speaks about among those pages. In it, there’s a guy who doesn’t change his diet, but instead documents it, and still eats the same – but perhaps by changing the timing of eating these foods – like donuts, pizza and the like, and simply writing it down or imputing …

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Lebron. D-Wade. Eddie Curry. And the suits.

January 6th, 2012 Posted in Advice, Basketball 2012, Opinion, PINO PER DIEM, Sports 365
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THE HEATLES, UNABLE TO PERFORM IN ATLANTA, GA.

THE HEATLES, UNABLE TO PERFORM IN ATLANTA, GA.

 

Tomorrow my wife Ayda and I will be embarking on a road trip to see the 2012 Miami Heat, live.  They play the New Jersey Nets at the Prudential Center in Newark.  Yesterday, I got a glimpse of the Heat, albeit some of their marquee players sat out with injuries.  This got me disappointed.

Surely the good people of Atlanta, fans of the Hawks, or those that just wanted to catch the Heat, were sorely disappointed like me seeing Lebron James …

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RALPH ON RELATIONSHIPS: YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR JOB.

January 4th, 2012 Posted in Advice, Opinion, PINO PER DIEM, Relationships, Sports 365
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AUSTRALIA BOUND IN 2 WEEKS.

AUSTRALIA BOUND IN 2 WEEKS.

Here’s a shocker.  SERENA DOESN’T LOVE TENNIS. Don’t believe me? Click here.  Her father Richard and her sister Venus, wouldn’t be proud.  For someone that has 27 grand slams to her name, who put blood, sweat, and way over 10,000 hours to the game of tennis, this is quite a revelation. But this isn’t really hard to believe.

 

Take for instance, my book review on Andre Agassi, and his autobiography, Open, that I read late last year, where that revelation was revealed initially …

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RALPH ON RELATIONSHIPS: PREDICTIONS AND SUCH LEAD TO RUIN.

December 28th, 2011 Posted in Advice, Opinion, PINO PER DIEM, Relationships
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KERMIT ON MY HEAD. JUDGE ME.

KERMIT ON MY HEAD. JUDGE ME.

Recently, I’ve observed some of my friends, those that are single and are growing bored of mingling, going for theirs. With gusto, they’re pulling out all the stops for the ones they want to love – the girl or guy of their proverbial dreams. Those are what their dreams are what their future is made of.  We’ve all seen it before – the formative stages occur and they get to know each other.  Sometimes, their intensity level isn’t evenly matched. Now what?  The one …

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