I may be the only person who was actually in Chicago last Sunday AT Soldier Field whose exposure to the Bears was nothing but a drive-by-with-windows-down. Ok, so technically I wasn’t at Soldier Field but nearby briefly.

It has taken this long (I’ll just say over 50 years) for me to know why I am drawn to certain female friends who are jocks, but today I finally had a flash of insight. Perspective wise, you should know I am straight and a mom of a bunch of athletic kids. And, I have [...]

It’s kind of like when you receive a gift from someone you didn’t expect would be giving you one, and it turns out to fit you to a tee. By jumping in and participating in ProBlogger’s brilliant Group Writing Project, I discovered these sites: About Baseball Coach Kids Sports Suicide Fan: We’re Die Hard Sports [...]

Here’s what I am hoping my life will look like over the next three to five years, and no, none of this is in my biz plan (yet). Work really hard for most of the year, then take a well-publicized long vacation, say 1 – 3 months. Last winter I took a month off (as [...]

From the time I was 8 years old, all my friends and I did during summer vacation was ride around town to round up enough kids to play sandlot baseball or “500″ or “workup.” That’s it. That’s what we did all day long. Then, when school started, and whenever there wasn’t any snow on the [...]

On Friday I launched a new website that focuses just on our town. While many other directory-style sites exist, my new page is an outgrowth of this site, which has always included some information about Prescott here. My town is a tourist destination and becomes the next home for many of those who visit. This [...]

At last. The best month is here! We live about 2 hours from Phoenix. Our son plays all his sports in a league that’s all Phoenix schools except for us. This means lots of time on the road, living the sporting spectator life. Like other parents, we try to get to as many of the [...]

The most recent fitness trend I read about is Yogalates (Yoga and Pilates combined). When I told my very buff husband about it, he asked if that is “when you do yoga and go out for latte’s after?” Chuckles aside, my favorite workout combination goes like this: racquetball at 6:45 a.m., just two games, followed [...]

On a quick hike this a.m with Chester I glanced downward and noticed the shorts I was wearing. They are dark blue, dark blue green and purple seersucker and I have been wearing them for at least 5 years. They came from Title9sport.com and have seen me through hundreds of day hikes, dozens of kayaking [...]

This morning my friend Sue and I went out to one of our nearby lakes (10 minutes from my house) and kayaked for about an hour and a half. There was no one else on the lake and it was very still. Just a few damselflies still buzzing around following the explosion of them I [...]