On Japan.Relaxing in a bath, watching Mt.Fuji change color, no one believes more fervently than a Japanese that a bad day on the course is far better than a good day at the office.
On golf and marriage. Golf should never be a battleground any more than a passion for flying kites, stamp collecting or chasing butterflies should threaten an otherwise successful union. When we love each, other we find ways to make each other happy. We learn to compromise, and instead of playing two rounds over the week-end, we settle for twenty seven holes on Saturday, and maybe a...
A Global Golfing Safari
On Japan.Relaxing in a bath, watching Mt.Fuji change color, no one believes more fervently than a Japanese that a bad day o...
In the spring of 2009, there was a party in Sarasota for a golfing group that had played together during 'the season' and each was asked to entertain. Some sang, did imitations, juggled, and one of the talented wives performed a remarkable Charleston. My offering was a poem based on a classic by Rudyard Kipling that every schoolboy learns in England. In my version, the lessons we learn from playing golf were the focus and it was very well received.Encouraged by this success, I wrote about the simple pleasure of sharing breakfast in bed with my wife on a Sunday morning. Friends said they...
In the spring of 2009, there was a party in Sarasota for a golfing group that had played together during 'the season' and each was asked to entertain....
Born in 1936, poet and author Richard Langdon Cook remembers The Blitz, attending 1948 London Olympics, and his boarding school days in Hertfordshire, England. With humor and nostalgia he recalls his army days in Cyprus, his early employment in the city, family life, and forty-two years with an international company. After living in Canada, Japan, and South Africa for many years, and traveling to over 120 countries on the company's behalf, he settled and retired in the United States. In Those Days offers engaging anecdotes stemming from visits to Paris, Hawaii, Rome, the Seychelles, China,...
Born in 1936, poet and author Richard Langdon Cook remembers The Blitz, attending 1948 London Olympics, and his boarding school days in Hertfordshire,...
