2012 Update: For my most recent thoughts, check out “Celebrate Different Stuff: Will’s Second Lesson.”
This is perhaps my favorite week of the year. It’s also – in spite of what your calendar may tell you – the official start of spring.
It’s Masters Week.
It’s the first major golf tournament of the year on the men’s side of professional golf (the young and extremely talented Stacy Lewis won the first women’s major over the weekend).
Whether or not you’re a fan of golf, if you want to follow or root for someone this weekend, you could do worse than Ernie Els.
Yes, he’s been playing like butt lately, but he’s had a lot on his mind. As Gene Wojciechowski wrote for ESPN.com today:
“But here he is, the unlikely front man for a cause he didn’t choose. Instead it chose him — or more precisely, it chose his 8-year-old son Ben, who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2006.”
Of course I’m biased. That’s the same year our son Will was diagnosed.
Take four minutes to read the column. You may have your Masters hero for the week.
Me and my boy do.
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