Had a great visit to St. Mary’s school in Vineland to talk about motivation, inspiration and Rocky Stories. The class and staff loved it, and I had so much fun. You can see the story in the local newspaper below. And check out the links and the photographs. The opening act was a sparring match [...]

I spoke on June 26 as a keynote to the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, giving a presentation on finding your dreams at the Rocky Steps. The essence of the presentation is to explain why people come from all over the world to run the Rocky Steps and introduce the audience to many of the [...]

Just got this email from a reader:
Hey Michael,
 
I live in Elk Grove, Ca (just south of Sacramento) and received “Rocky Stories” as a gift from my wife and have read it 3 times.  It inspired me so much that we are going to Philly next month and I’m going to run the Rocky Steps!!!!  The [...]

I had a great day today giving a talk to the Equipment Leasing & Finance Association
convention in Philadelphia. I shared with them our story of the Rocky Steps — introducing them through multi-media to the many people we met during our year at the steps, and telling their incredible and inspirational stories of why they come [...]

We had a wonderful time at daughter Sally’s Kenyon College graduation. here are a couple photos. Now she’s off to Tanzania for the summer!   
 
 

Check out two of my recent stories in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The first was on Jordan Burnham, whom I profiled last january. He went to Washington to participate in a briefing before Congress about ending the stimga for depression and mental illness. He survived a jump from his ninth floor window,  a story that I described [...]

Pennsylvanians vote in the presidential primary tomorrow and the real winner is clear — Rocky Balboa. Neither candidate ran the Rocky Steps (this disappoints me!), but the Rocky theme has been ubiquitous the last six weeks. Hillary ended her closing rally tonight at Penn’s fabled Palestra with the Rocky Theme song, and that was followed [...]

Here is the cake Maureen baked for Karen Marshall’s 50th birthday! 
 

Tim and I had a big night at the Phillies, watching them go scoreless for the first eight innings, but score four in the bottom of the ninth to win, 4-3. Can’t beat nights like this. Here is a little self portrait from our seats behind the home  dugout. And then below that is Utley at [...]

Check out my story in the Philadelphia Inquirer. These old guys can play. Forever young, I’d say.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/17728349.html