Fisher Anderson, Franklin High School

Fisher Anderson is a Senior at Franklin H.S. in Franklin, Tennessee.  He is 6'7" and has a 4.2 GPA.  He has committed to Stanford University.  (Posted with permission from the Anderson family.)
 

License-Plate Roof Birdhouse

 

After replacing our California license plates with ones from Tennessee, I hated to just throw the old ones away.  So I built a birdhouse and used one of them as a roof.  I don't know how functional it is, but it is nice to look at and recall my old home state.

My Mother's Hands

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took this photo of my 90-year-old mother's hands as she held my sister's hands shortly before her passing.  Orange County Catholic Magazine used this photo in an article in their May 16, 2021 issue.

George Harrison

This is a drawing that I did in 1974 for Tracie Lipton, while up at Humboldt State University.  I haven't seen this picture for forty-five years.  Tracie sent a photo of it to me recently after she came across my blog and my article about my year up at HSU.  I am humbled that she has kept it for all these years.

Left Coast Coach--a novel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            So many times throughout my coaching career I have had coaches tell me one crazy story after another about dealing with players, parents, the press or administrators.  We would always say that this could be a chapter in our collective book about coaching football.  Well, I tried to take some of those tales and incorporate them into this novel. 

            This story follows two high school football coaches; one from New Jersey and one from California; who end up coaching at Elam Academy in Georgia.  Not only do they face tough competition on the field—they face racism, politics, and cancer.

            Available on Amazon.com

Wind Chimes

 

This was a recycled art project.  The copper pipes were from an old water heater from my parents' house in Fountain Valley.

 

"It's Okay"

My wife found this picture on the internet.  We both felt that it was a very tender, comforting  moment--maybe between siblings or friends.  I tried to capture it in watercolors.

 

Maori Warrior

 

 

This is a watercolor of a Maori Warrior.  I used a photo by Art Wolfe as a model.  His photograph was of George Hare at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii.