Casey

Here’s a true story I tell new friends after about our fifth dinner together. Except for one small footnote, it has nothing to do with OESH. Back in the early-mid ‘80’s, every other weekend, I used to take the Amtrak train from Boston where I was in medical school, down to Manhattan where Bob worked. […]

Adam, our first male OESH Ambassador, and former OESH intern, just sent us this photo of him jumping over fire near the finish of the Spartan Race held in New Jersey earlier this month. Never mind that Reebok sponsors the race…Adam proudly wore his OESH La Vidas and EVERYBODY was asking him about them. Adam […]

Last of this series…bow fell off.

Every year, a few friends and friends of friends from college (University of Chicago), and our families meet up some place fun. Last year we went to the beach (Bald Head Island in North Carolina) where I tested a prototype pair of our OESH athletic sandals. They were so great that they ended up being the […]

The conversation started over the Jerusalem Artichoke, a perennial vegetable with bulbous roots tasting like a cross between a potato and an artichoke. A wonderful OESHer friend gave me some of her roots last year which I planted, and this year, I gave some of the roots to another OESHer and long-time friend (who is […]

This summer, our daughters and I have been playing squash. Of course we’ve all been running too (lifelong commitment / cross-country workouts for the girls) but the idea of throwing squash into the mix came to us when the University of Virginia invested $12.4 million on a new indoor squash court facility that is practically […]

Right around the corner from OESH is Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello (you know, that building that’s on the back of the nickel) where every Fourth of July, 76 people from around the world, are officially sworn in as citizens of the United States. Exactly ten years ago I had the privilege of helping to celebrate one […]