A good friend of mine asked me once or twice; "Mark, why is it that you always seem to have to suffer on a bike ride?" I guess I don't always seek out a ride of suffering, in fact most times I try to avoid it. . . really I do. However, I must admit [...]
Total passion in creating and providing value in caring for people who require rehabilitation from injury or recovering from various orthopedic post-operative procedures. I believe that was my mission statement way back when. Our trademark has been and continues to be not only treating patients but motivating them through the recovery process and then inspiring [...]
"Football/Soccer is a beautiful game because it belongs to us all. The world plays." - Arsene Wegner I vividly remember the 1st time I was introduced to soccer, I was a 6th grader at Sacred Heart junior high school in Van Buren. Our coach was a teacher of Lebanese descent named Sebouh Dersominian. [...]
My mother would often relate to me that as a youngster growing up that I was always "into everything". A curious child that would very often get into various predicaments, sometimes quite harrowing. As a 4 year old I apparently climbed up a neighbors roof top via an unattended ladder all the way up the [...]
Most definitions of adventure I found include the words risk and hazardous. The American Heritage dictionary defines the noun adventure this way; "an undertaking of questionable or hazardous nature." If I choose to accept this definition of adventure I must conclude that the adventure travel industry or many of our bike rides are rarely about [...]
"The absolute perfect blend of people, adversity, companionship and good times." -- Mike Chasse This year's annual cycling trip to Vermont may well have been the best one yet! Perhaps the most satisfying aspect was that we were so lucky to have a truly special person/friend accompany us. It has been 9 years since Mike [...]
Several years back, I guess it's been seven or eight years now, I picked up hockey. Keep in mind that I was a lifelong basketball player and winters were spent inside of a gymnasium shooting hoops, not on cold sheets of ice. I believe it all started out when a group of guys needed extra [...]
My adult children have been wondering why I haven’t written a blog post about them. “In time” or “when the time is right I will put something together”, I would explain. Perhaps the time is now! With the birth of my first grandchild, Kingston (thanks Jordyn and Darren) and the graduation of my sons from [...]
In Italy, large meals are concluded with the saying "siamo alla frutta", literally translated, "we are at the fruit"(dessert). In our household, we always ended our meals with a home-cooked dessert and my favorite, without a doubt, was my grandmothers butterscotch pie, always made from scratch in a double boiler. The tradition and [...]
One of my grandfather Rossignol's and memère Bouchard's favorite meals was pork, beef, rabbit and sometimes partridge Slow Cooked in a big roaster with potatoes, carrots, turnips and lots of onions. This was simply known as, "un rôti". This was always served with plenty of sides like, coleslaw, pickled beets/cauliflower, swiss chard and buckwheat ployes/pancakes [...]
