Old Dog, New Trick (a work-in-progress)
About three million. That’s my best estimate of how many times I hit a tennis ball with a racquet during my seventy years playing the...
The Daley Almanac
What matters?
Eliot Daley
- Sep 30
- 2 min
How Not to Treat a Friend (or Anyone)
Last night I had one of our dearest friends for dinner. That’s “have a friend for dinner” as the psychopathic cannibal Hannibal Lecter...
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Eliot Daley
- Sep 11
- 3 min
Being Taught to Hate Works Well
I felt a twinge of hatred on Saturday. Pure. Unadulterated. And well-aged. It had been instilled in me when I was five years...
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Eliot Daley
- Sep 11
- 2 min
Gimme a break!
The comfy old American plea “Gimme a break!” has been around for a long time. And we all know what it means: “I’m doing the best I can,...
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