Author Archives: Steve Taddei

Pandemic or no pandemic, I’m grateful for the beautiful weather and the safe paths to allow me to feel safe on a good bike ride.  Left the house at 11:10, all masked up and headed toward SF Bay.  With the water to my right it was beautiful ride to Oakland Airport.  After crossing the roadContinue reading “Gratitude Challenge, Day 6 of 100, The Bike Ride”

It was 3:15 PM, when I walked in the door after a great walk, on this beautiful Monday aftrnoon. Ms Fitbit told  me that I have 14,699 steps and for the last mile or so, I was thinking about the apple that I’d eat when I got home.  What I didn’t know is that whileContinue reading “Gratitude Challenge Day 5 of 100, Mrs. Taddei’s Brownies”

Today I’m grateful for public golf.  While golf is stereotyped as an elitist sport, public golf is what opens golf up to the masses.  Public golf is on full display this week as the best golfers in the world will be competing in the PGA Championship at Harding Park, a public golf course in SanContinue reading “Gratitude Challange, Day 4 of 100, Public Golf”

Today I’m grateful for the Alameda Braver Angel meeting that we had today.  Our alliance is a mix of liberals and conserviatives who look for common ground with the people with whom we disagree politically.  We rolled out our With Malice Toward None Initative. We’re going to be working with religious organizatins, colleges/universities, and civicContinue reading “Gratitude Day 3 of 100”

Today I’m grateful for the many ways to communicate particularly during the pandemic. While I can’t visit friends or make physical visits to the offices that I service, it’s all about the emails, phone, calls, handwritten notes, and virtulal meetings.  This week I experienced all four: A week ago, I sent a hand written note,Continue reading “Gratitude Day 2 of 100”

Today I got a text from my son who’s in Palm Springs for a couple of days.  117 Degrees! Tomorrow they’re going to start a cooling trend, 116, then 114 on Saturday.  By the time they get to Wednesday, it will be a fridgid 105. I’m greatful that I don’t know what the temperature wasContinue reading “Gratitude Day 1 of 100 Day Challenge”

On February 18, Kathryn and I celebrated our 36th Wedding Anniversary.  We had a great celebration with the whole family at Mom’s house.  A couple of weeks later, we asked Mom to come to our house to have corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day.  That week in March is always a busy becauseContinue reading “How Do You Put Things into Perspective”

The golf course is closed, there was no Masters, and no baseball to watch.  Dinners out have turned into picking up takeout while wearing a mask.  Yep, these are my First World problems.  I feel fortunate that I can earn a living while working from home.  With a sales territory that covers the whole WestContinue reading “Navigating Through the Covid19 Crisis”

I’m a former Republican who is searching for a new party.  In 2016, as a Republican, my opinion of Donald Trump was so low, I voted for Hilary Clinton. In late 2017 when it was obvious that the GOP were going to act as Trump’s enablers, I left the Republican party and became an Independent.Continue reading “I Need a New Political Party”

Have you ever been labeled?  I got off to a bad start at school, quickly falling behind in First Grade and falling further behind as the years went by. It was a funny thing.  I could make total sense out of Rod Carew’s Batting Average and Bob Gibson’s Earned Run Average but couldn’t answer theContinue reading “Labelpalusa”