Tuesday's With Dave

 Girls Got Game Chapter 4 of A Hero's Journey: Beyond Little Norway and Olympia Sports Camp is entitled Meet The Mentors. The idea of the chapter was to analyze the journeys of 12 Olympia coaches whose journey depicts one of the 12 steps of the Hero's Journey described by Jospeh Campbell in his philosophy. What came out of this analysis is that teaching and learning become multi-generational through the process of mentoring. Teachers and coaches teach skills, for sure, but more so they teach or model life skills and a sense of being a good competitor and a good person, maybe to be a coach themselves some day. The true impact of that process is felt best in the lives of he next generation as they share what they learned. Their mentors have taught them how to mentor.  One of the Mentors whose journey is described in Chapter 4  is Jackie Zicaro, an Olympia stalwart who I knew as Jackie Shaw when I coached her in high school.  Jackie went to Olympia as a babysitter, a ca...

Happy Birthday Pops! A personal blog this week as my family celebrates my dad's 100th birthday. John MacLeod Dooley was born Nov 1 1925. I say that Nov 1 2025 IS  his 100th birthday, not "would have been" as he passed away in 1996. This is a day to celebrate, reflect, and remember.  I write this blog to share a part of my journey, a pivot point one would say, but I also want to share this thoughtful memory with my brothers John, Steve, and Pat as well as the memories of my late sister Mary and brother Kevin. This blog involves part of my journey but my siblings all have similar moments they shared with a brilliant man we called Pops. Most of the moments brought with them a laugh or a smile, and some moments were very sad. Actually my dad was proud to be called Pops because his father had been.  A high school graduate at 16, and the youngest Chartered Accountant in Ontario at the time, my dad had a journey filled with achievement, success, and trauma and tragedy. We are al...