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March Madness

In: Family on: March 19, 2015

It's that time of year--March Madness. It's a big deal around our house, filling out our brackets and hoping our picks end with bragging rights for the coming year. That's what happens when you have five competitive people …

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Family Fanatics

In: Family, Life, Reading, Uncategorized on: July 30, 2014

Thank you to www.fanatics.com (a comprehensive site for all your sports apparel needs!) for the challenge to delve into our many memories of how sports has brought our family together. It's been fun to walk down memory lane …

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The TP Game

In: Family, Life, Uncategorized on: November 4, 2013

We love sports at our house. And I am a sucker for tradition. This weekend we got to experience both at the famous TP game at John Brown University. A little history: this has been a tradition at JBU for 33 years. It happens …

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I Love NCAA March Madness!

In: Family, Life, Uncategorized on: March 20, 2013

I didn't grow up watching much basketball. In our family, we were all about football and baseball. I tried to play basketball in middle school, but to be honest, the game bewildered me. Too much going on at too fast of a …

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The Spring Training Trip

In: Family, Life, Uncategorized on: March 15, 2013

My husband has talked about this trip since I met him. He'd been to spring training in Florida once as a teenager, with his dad, but it just never worked out to take our kids. So many other plans interfered during spring …

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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 70th Anniversary

In: Uncategorized on: March 11, 2013

Most people (including myself) know of the AAGPBL from the 1992 movie A League of Their Own. But as often happens with history and fiction, sometimes I forget that these were real women. At least until this weekend. As I sat …

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End of an Era

In: Family, Life, Uncategorized on: February 25, 2013

It all started in the fall of 1996. Our five-year-old daughter wanted to play soccer. Since she was a very active and energetic child, we decided this could be a good thing. We signed her up. No other parent on our team …

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Basketball, basket ball, and more basketball

In: Family, Life, Uncategorized on: December 7, 2012

Our high school son is playing in a basketball tournament this weekend. That means a game each day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, as well as the hour each way drive to the small town where it is being held. In between times, …

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Why Writing is Like the Olympics

In: Life, Uncategorized, Writing on: August 8, 2012

As I've been watching the Olympics, it has occurred to me that the quest for Olympic gold is very similar to the writing journey. No matter if you are a beginner or a professional, I think a few of these comparisons will have …

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Olympics 2012

In: Family, Uncategorized on: July 27, 2012

The Olympics are here! The Olympics are here! What is it about the Olympics that draw us in so completely? Is it the world-wide competition? The (mostly) amateur-status thing? The pageantry? The personal stories of …

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