After reading Andre Agassi's autobiography, you appreciate just how many times the superstar athlete lived through close calls that nearly cost him games, friendships, love, his education, and most certainly his self-respect. Well, this is a close call for me. Our meeting to discuss the book...
Tennis, tennis, and more tennis. At the 3/4 mark of Agassi's memoir, Open, I am getting a little tennised out. US Opens, Australian Opens, Wimbledon ...
Chocolate Raspberry Pavlova So Judy could have contributed any number of recipes from the fabulous selection she served up when she hosted LOL, but this dessert had the ladies going for seconds. What You Need: For the Chocolate Meringue Base 6 egg whites 1 ½ cups of superfine sugar 3 TBSP...
So we know Andre Agassi married Stefi Graf in 2001 (and remains married to her, with a son and daughter) but did you know he always had a thing for her? Talk about foreshadowing! At about the mid-way point, after Agassi has finally won his first...
After recently downward dogging it in front of my yoga class with my shorts inside out, I ought to be embarrassed enough to avoid going back to the gym. But because I seek balance—in spirit and between the jeans I like to fit into and...
"One cannot always tell what it is that keeps us shut in, confines us, seems to bury us, but still one feels certain barriers, certain gates, certain walls. Is all this imagination, fantasy? I do not think so. And then one asks: My God! Is...
Happy Free-for-all-Friday! The LOL only have about two weeks until our meeting to discuss Open and I'm only half way through the book, so I better not blog on forever. There's reading to be done. Meanwhile, here's a link to an interesting, brief interview from this...
So as I'm reading Open, tennis superstar, Andre Agassi's autobiography, something interesting occurs to me. While this a tell-all and tell- it-candidly, non-fiction sports memoir and the LOL just completed, Annabel, the deeply moving, beautifully imagined fictional work of Kathleen Winter, one might think there...
...So says the Los Angeles Times of Andre Agassi's autobiography, Open... "Not your typical jock-autobio fare. This literate and absorbing book is, as the title baldly states, Agassi's confessional, a wrenching chronicle of his lifelong search for identity and serentity, on and off the court." I...
While I'm really getting into our latest book, Open, by Andre Agassi, it's Free-For-All-Friday and today finds me making tribute to a few of my friends and the faithful companions they've recently lost. Life is funny, isn't it? The way it comes in waves. Over the...